{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/74",
  "legislation_title": "Coast Protection Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Penalties for offences.",
  "text": "Save as hereinbefore expressly provided, any person committing an offence under any provision of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction, in the case of a first offence under that provision, to a fine not exceeding ten poundslevel 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence thereunder, to a fine not exceeding fifty poundslevel 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 43 for “ten pounds” and “fifty pounds” there is substituted (S.) in each case “level 3 on the standard scale” by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289E–289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 43 S.I. 1984/703 (N.I.3), arts. 5 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) 6 (increase of fines) and 9 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions) apply (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 43 Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 35 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), 38 (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply (E.W.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/74/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:11.869147+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}