{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/section-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/section-78.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/28",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006",
  "path": "section/78",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Penalties for offences: transitional modification for England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) This section contains transitional modifications in respect of penalties for certain offences committed in England and Wales.\n(2) In relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022, the references in section 21(2)(b) of this Act to periods of imprisonment of the general limit in a magistrates’ court are to be read as references to periods of imprisonment of 6 months.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 78(2) substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 78(2) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 289 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 78(2) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 78(3) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 78 in force at 1.2.2007 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2007/204, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 78 in force at 2.4.2007 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2007/204, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 78 in force at 22.4.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/1147, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 78 in force at 22.4.2008 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2008/1147, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 78 in force at 13.12.2008 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2008/3171, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/28/section/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:18.053587+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."
}