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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the periods set out in the second column of the following Table shall be the maximum periods applicable respectively to the amounts set out opposite thereto, being amounts due at the time the imprisonment or detention is imposed.\nTable\nAn amount not exceeding £200\n7 days\nAn amount exceeding £200 but not exceeding £500\n14 days\nAn amount exceeding £500 but not exceeding £1,000\n28 days\nAn amount exceeding £1,000 but not exceeding £2,500\n45 days\nAn amount exceeding £2,500 but not exceeding £5,000\n3 months\nAn amount exceeding £5,000 but not exceeding £10,000\n6 months\nAn amount exceeding £10,000\n12 months",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 77, Sch. 14 para. 59"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Entries in Sch. 4 para. 1 substituted (1.10.1992) by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 23(1), (with s. 28); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c.33, SIF 39:1), ss. 60(1), 123(6), Sch.8 para. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum substituted by S.I. 1984/447, art. 2(2), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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