{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-1986/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1330",
  "legislation_title": "The Fixed Penalty (Procedure) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) On receipt of the remittance in respect of a fixed penalty the fixed penalty clerk shall notify the chief officer of police that the remittance has been received.\n(2) If payment of the fixed penalty is made by a person otherwise than as required by the fixed penalty notice the fixed penalty clerk shall return the remittance to that person.\n(3) Where a remittance in respect of a fixed penalty is sent by a person to a justices' clerk who is not the fixed penalty clerk specified in the fixed penalty notice, the justices' clerk shall return the remittance to that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/926",
      "affecting_title": "The Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/617",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1330/regulation/5",
    "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."
}