{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/24",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "General restriction on prosecution",
  "text": "(1) Proceedings for the offence to which a penalty notice relates may not be brought until the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice was given (“the suspended enforcement period”).\n(2) If the penalty is paid before the end of the suspended enforcement period, no proceedings may be brought for the offence.\n(3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person to whom the penalty notice was given has made a request to be tried.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 in operation at 6.6.2012 by S.R. 2012/214, art. 2(m)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/24/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:43.017346+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."
}