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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/28",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Increase in maximum on-the-spot penalty for disorderly behaviour",
  "text": "(1) In Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16) (on-the-spot penalties for disorderly behaviour), section 3 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2) (maximum penalty that may be prescribed), at the end insert “ plus a half of the relevant surcharge ”.\n(3) After that subsection insert—\n“(2A) The “relevant surcharge”, in relation to a person of a given age, is the amount payable by way of surcharge under section 161A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 by a person of that age who is fined the maximum amount for the offence.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 1.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/1697, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/32",
      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/28/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:58.721276+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."
}