{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-27/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-27/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/27/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 113(7)(c) the reference to the general limit in a magistrates’ court is to be read as a reference to 6 months in relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 31 substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 16(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 31 in force at 3.8.2009 by S.I. 2009/1842, art. 2(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/schedule/27/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:04.639459+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."
}