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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-conditional-cautions-financial-penalties-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Conditional Cautions: Financial Penalties) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-conditional-cautions-financial-penalties-order-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 23A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) provides that a conditional caution may be given to an offender aged 18 or over. An authorised person or a relevant prosecutor may decide that a conditional caution should be given if the five requirements set out in section 23 of that Act are met.\nArticle 2 of this Order prescribes the descriptions of offences in respect of which (where a conditional caution is given), a condition may be attached which requires the offender to pay a financial penalty. The Order also sets different maximum amounts of penalty that the offender may be required to pay, depending on the description of offence.\nArticle 3 of this Order revokes the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Conditional Cautions: Financial Penalties) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2773).\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this Order as no impact on business, civil society organisations or the public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/615/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:46.928851+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."
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