{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-30.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-30.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/30.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "30.6",
  "heading": "Claim to avoid fine after penalty notice",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) a chief officer of police serves on the magistrates’ court officer a certificate registering, for enforcement as a fine, a sum payable by a defendant after failure to comply with a penalty notice; and\n(b) the court or a fines officer enforces the fine.\n(2) A defendant who claims not to be the person to whom the penalty notice was issued must, unless the court otherwise directs—\n(a) make that claim in writing; and\n(b) serve it on the court officer.\n(3) The court officer must—\n(a) notify the chief officer of police by whom the certificate was registered; and\n(b) refer the case to the court.\n(4) Where such a claim is made—\n(a) the general rule is that the court must adjourn the enforcement for 28 days and fix a hearing; but\n(b) the court may make a different order.\n(5) At any such hearing, the chief officer of police must introduce any evidence to contradict the defendant’s claim.\n[Note. See section 10 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.\nFor the circumstances in which a sum may be registered for enforcement as a fine after failure to comply with a penalty notice, see sections 8 and 9 of the 2001 Act.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 30.6 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2001 c. 16; section 10 was amended by paragraphs 1 and 10 of Schedule 23 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c. 16; section 8 was amended by section 109(1) of, and paragraph 399 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39). Section 9 was amended by section 109(1) of, and paragraph 400(1), (2), (3) and (4) of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/30.6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:44.140935+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."
}