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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-collection-of-fines-final-scheme-order-2006/article-51",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110745051",
  "legislation_title": "The Collection of Fines (Final Scheme) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-collection-of-fines-final-scheme-order-2006",
  "path": "article/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "text": "In section 91 (transfer of fines from Scotland or Northern Ireland)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) after “Wales, a magistrates’ court” insert “(or a fines officer as the case may be)”;\n(ii) after “this Act” insert “(or under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 as the case may be)”; and\n(b) in subsection (3)—\n(i) after “Court, a magistrates’ court” insert “(or a fines officer as the case may be)”;\n(ii) “this Act” insert “(or under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 as the case may be)”; and\n(iii) after “2000” insert “(or as if he were a fines officer acting in the same local justice area as that court as the case may be)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; so far as relevant, in section 91, subsection (1) were amended by (NI) SI 1981/1675 and the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), Schedule 8, paragraph 227."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110745051/article/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:14.203569+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."
}