{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Revocations) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "District courts—fixed penalties and conditional offers",
  "text": "Any reference to a clerk of a district court in—\n(a) any fixed penalty notice as mentioned in section 52(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 made before 1st April 1996;\n(b) any conditional offer as mentioned in section 75(4) of that Act made before 1st April 1996; or\n(c) any conditional offer as mentioned in section 56(1) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 made before 1st April 1996,\nshall be construed, for all purposes, on and after that date as a reference to the clerk of the district court for the commission area in which there is situated the court originally referred to in that notice or, as the case may be, offer and any such notice or offer shall, on or after that date, have effect accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/739/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:10.731850+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."
}