{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Surcharge) (Amendment) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-surcharge-amendment-order-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 161A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) requires a court, when dealing with a person for one or more offences, to order that person to pay a surcharge. The amount of the 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”). Article 2 of this Order substitutes the Schedule to the 2012 Order to provide for an increase in those amounts.\nArticle 3 provides that the increased amounts do not apply where a court deals with a person for a single offence committed before the date on which this Order comes into force, or where it deals with a person for more than one offence and at least one of those offences was committed before that date.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/310/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:32:08.167836+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."
}