{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Special cases.",
  "text": "(1) Section 38 above does not apply—\n(a) to any enactment specified in Schedule 2 to this Act; or\n(b) to the following enactments—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) any enactment specified in the Schedule to the London Transport Act 1977 or in Schedule 1 to the British Railways Act 1977 to the extent that the enactment was amended by section 12(1) of the former Act or section 13(1) of the latter;\n(iii) any enactment specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the City of London (Various Powers) Act 1977.\n(2) The enactments specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 to this Act, which relate to the maximum fines for the offences mentioned (and broadly described) in column 1 of that Schedule, shall have effect as if the maximum fine that may be imposed on conviction of any offence so mentioned were a fine not exceeding the amount specified in column 4 of that Schedule instead of a fine not exceeding the amount specified in column 3.\n(3) The enactments specified in column 2 of Schedule 4 to this Act, which relate to certain maximum fines that may be imposed on a person otherwise than on conviction of an offence, their broad effect being described in column 1 of that Schedule, shall have effect as if the maximum fine that may be imposed were a fine not exceeding the amount specified in column 4 of that Schedule instead of a fine not exceeding the amount specified in column 3.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 39(1)(b)(i) repealed by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), ss. 3 5, Sch. 4 paras. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. xii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1977 c. xvii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1977 c. xv."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 39(1)(b)(ii) extended by London Regional Transport Act 1984 (c. 32, SIF 126), s. 71(3)(a), Sch. 6 para. 27"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/48/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:50.097321+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."
}