{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-16L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-16L.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/16L",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16L",
  "heading": "Notice of conviction and penalty",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor must secure that a person who is convicted of an offence under section 16H is given a notice of conviction and penalty.\n(2) A notice of conviction and penalty is an electronic notification which—\n(a) sets out each penalty imposed on the offender under section 16I;\n(b) specifies a magistrates’ court for the purposes of section 16K;\n(c) requires the offender to pay the sums that the offender is liable to pay under section 16I—\n(i) within the relevant 28-day period, and\n(ii) in the manner specified in the notice.\n(3) The relevant 28-day period is the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the person’s conviction took effect.\n(4) In this section—\n“electronic notification” has the meaning given by section 16G(4);\n“penalty” means—\n(a)a fine,\n(b)penalty points,\n(c)compensation,\n(d)prosecution costs, or\n(e)a surcharge;\n“penalty points” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 16G-16M and cross-heading inserted (7.11.2023) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), ss. 3, 51(4); S.I. 2023/1194, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/16L",
    "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."
}