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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If, on the application of the fines officer, it appears to the relevant court that P is failing or has failed to comply with a work order without reasonable excuse, the court must revoke the order.\n(2) If, on the application of the fines officer, it appears to the relevant court—\n(a) that P has failed to comply with a work order but has a reasonable excuse for the failure, or\n(b) that, because of a change in circumstances since the order was made, P is unlikely to be able to comply with a work order,\nthe court may revoke the order or postpone the specified date.\n(3) The relevant court may of its own motion revoke a work order if it appears to the court that, because of a change in circumstances since the order was made, P is unlikely to be able to comply with the order.\n(4) A work order may be revoked under any of sub-paragraphs (1) to (3), or varied under sub-paragraph (2), before the specified date (as well as on or after that date).\n(5) Regulations may provide for the fines officer to have the power to issue a summons for the purpose of ensuring that P attends the court to which an application has been made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "restricted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/25",
      "affecting_title": "Education and Skills Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/6/paragraph/8",
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  },
  "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."
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