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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-140.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/140",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Disposal of non-pecuniary forfeitures.",
  "text": "Subject to any enactment relating to customs or excise, anything other than money forfeited on a conviction by a magistrates’ court or the forfeiture of which may be enforced by a magistrates’ court shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the court may direct; and the proceeds shall be applied as if they were a fine imposed under the enactment on which the proceedings for the forfeiture are founded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 140 excluded by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 80(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 140 excluded by Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 (c. 54, SIF 96), s. 14(3C) (as substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 82)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 140 excluded (E.W.) by Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (c. 4, SIF 39:2), s. 13(8), Sch. 4 para. 1(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 140 excluded (19.2.2001) by 2000 c. 11, s. 23(9), Sch. 4 para. 2(4); S.I. 2001/421, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 140 excluded (25.7.2003) by The Advanced Television Services Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1901), reg. 8, Sch. para. 8(10)S. 140 excluded (8.2.2007) by Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (c. 36), ss. 103, 126, Sch. 5 para. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/140",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}