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Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In section 193A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (fines on conviction on indictment to be without limit)—

(a)

at the beginning, insert “(1)";

(b)

for the words “section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980" substitute the words “section 457A(4) of this Act";

(c)

after the word “fine” where first occurring insert the words “of or";

(d)

for the word “section" in the second and third places where it occurs substitute the words “subsection";

(e)

at the end, insert the following new subsection—

“(2)

Where any Act confers a power by subordinate instrument to make a person liable on conviction on indictment of any offence mentioned in subsection (1) above to a fine or a maximum fine of a specified amount, or which shall not exceed a specified amount, the fine which may be provided in the exercise of that power shall by virtue of this subsection be a fine of an unlimited amount.”