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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2120",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1696) (“the 2012 Order”).\nSection 161A(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) requires a court when dealing with a person for one or more offences to order the person to pay a surcharge. The 2012 Order prescribes those cases where a court is not required to order a surcharge. It also prescribes the amount of the surcharge in those cases where a surcharge is payable. The Schedule to the 2012 Order provides that, in certain cases involving custody, a surcharge is only payable in relation to sentences imposed “by the Crown Court”. Article 2 of this Order omits these references to the Crown Court so that a surcharge is now also payable on imposition of an immediate custodial sentence by a magistrates’ court.\nArticle 3 provides that the amendments this Order makes to the 2012 Order will not apply where a magistrates’ court deals with a person for a single offence committed before 1st September 2014 or, where a magistrates’ court deals with a person for more than one offence, if at least one of those offences was committed before 1st September 2014.\nA full impact assessment of the effect of the victim surcharge on the costs to business and the voluntary sector was published in 2012, and is available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2012/339/pdfs/ukia_20120339_en.pdf. An addendum to that impact assessment is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2120/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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