{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-1986/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-1986/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1330",
  "legislation_title": "The Fixed Penalty (Procedure) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Part III of the Transport Act 1982 (“Part III”) makes provision for a new system of fixed penalties which extends to moving traffic offences and which comes into force on 1st October 1986 (S.I. 1986/1326).\nThese Regulations make provision for the procedure to be followed under the new system additional to that already set out in Part III. The Regulations for the most part concern the sending of certain documents between the police and the courts. In addition, Regulation 2 and the Schedule to the Regulations prescribe the information to be provided in the documents issued under Part III. Regulation 5(2) and (3) provide that a remittance in respect of a fixed penalty is to be returned to the payer if it is made otherwise than as required by the fixed penalty notice or to the wrong court. Regulation 9 provides that the fixed penalty clerk shall not accept payment of the fixed penalty after the expiry of the period allowed for payment by the fixed penalty notice. Regulation 11 provides that a driving licence receipt issued by a constable shall be valid for a period of two months instead of the period of one month specified in section 35(3)(a) of the 1982 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1330/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:43:49.193698+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."
}