{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Powers of harbour authorities to provide for maximum fines up to level 4 on standard scale.",
  "text": "(1) Where a harbour authority is empowered to provide—\n(a) in an instrument made by virtue of an enactment; or\n(b) in an instrument made by virtue of an instrument made under an enactment,\nthat a person, as regards any summary offence (whether or not created by the instrument), shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding an amount less than level 4 on the standard scale, the power shall extend by virtue of this section to making him liable to a fine not exceeding level 4.\n(2) Where any enactment or instrument (“the enabling legislation\") (however expressed) provides that a person who contravenes any provision of an instrument (“a regulatory instrument\") made by a harbour authority—\n(a) by virtue of the enabling legislation; or\n(b) by virtue of an instrument made under the enabling legislation,\nshall be guilty of a summary offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding an amount less than level 4 on the standard scale, the power conferred by the enabling legislation shall by virtue of this section enable the harbour authority to provide in a regulatory instrument that a person, as regards any summary offence created by the regulatory instrument, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:56.668542+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."
}