{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-88.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994",
  "path": "section/88",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Video recordings: increase in penalties.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (which create offences for which section 15(1) and (3) prescribe maximum fines of, in the case of sections 9 and 10, £20,000 and, in the case of other offences, level 5) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 9 (supplying videos of unclassified work), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both,\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £20,000 or both.”.\n(3) In section 10 (possessing videos of unclassified work for supply), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both,\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £20,000 or both.”.\n(4) In section 11 (supplying videos in breach of classification), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.”.\n(5) In section 12 (supplying videos in places other than licensed sex shops), after subsection (4), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(4A) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (3) above shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.”.\n(6) In section 14 (supplying videos with false indication as to classification), after subsection (4), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (3) above shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.”.\n(7) The amendments made by this section shall not apply to offences committed before this section comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:43.965785+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."
}