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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-collection-disclosure-of-information-prescribed-benefits-regulations-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3242",
  "legislation_title": "The Fines Collection (Disclosure of Information) (Prescribed Benefits) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-collection-disclosure-of-information-prescribed-benefits-regulations-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations define a “prescribed benefit” for the purposes of paragraph 9C of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003.\nParagraphs 9A to 9C of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, which were inserted by section 41 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, permit the Secretary of State, in response to an information request from a designated officer in a magistrates’ court, to disclose details of, among other things, whether a person is in receipt of a prescribed benefit, in order to assist a court in deciding whether to make an application for benefit deductions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3242/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:19:55.344961+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."
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