{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/powers-of-criminal-courts-act-1973-repealed/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/powers-of-criminal-courts-act-1973-repealed/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/62",
  "legislation_title": "Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/powers-of-criminal-courts-act-1973-repealed",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "General power of Crown Court to fine offender convicted on indictment.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is convicted on indictment of any offence other than an offence for which the sentence is fixed by law or falls to be imposed under section 2(2), 3(2) or 4(2) of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, the court, if not precluded from sentencing the offender by its exercise of some other power . . ., may impose a fine in lieu of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way in which the court has power to deal with him, subject however to any enactment . . . requiring the offender to be dealt with in a particular way.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1) inserted (1.10.1997 so far as relating to offences the sentences for which fall to be imposed under section 2(2) or 3(2) and 1.12.1999 to the extent not already in force) by 1997 c. 43, s. 55(2), Sch. 4 para. 8(3); S.I. 1997/2200, art. 2(2)(d); S.I. 1999/3096, art. 2(d)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words \"(such as the power to make a probation order)\" in s. 30(1) repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(7), Sch. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 30(2) repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(7), Sch. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/62/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:37.132128+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."
}