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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2016/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2016/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/389",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 161A(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) (“the 2003 Act”) requires a court, when dealing with a person for one or more offences, to order the person to pay a surcharge. The amount of surcharge that is payable in particular circumstances is set out in the Schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1696) (“the 2012 Order”). This Order amends that Schedule to increase those amounts.\nArticle 3 provides that the amendments this Order makes to the 2012 Order do not apply where a court deals with a person for a single offence committed before 8th April 2016; nor do they apply where a court deals with a person for more than one offence where at least one of those offences was committed before 8th April 2016.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available at https://legislation.gov.uk",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/389/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:17.101784+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."
}