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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-act-1985-criminal-courts-charge-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-act-1985-criminal-courts-charge-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/796",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Criminal Courts Charge) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-act-1985-criminal-courts-charge-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Remittal of the criminal courts charge",
  "text": "The period specified for the purposes of section 50(4) of the Sentencing Code (power to remit criminal courts charge) is—\n(a) where the person liable to pay the charge has made the application to a magistrates’ court to remit the charge, two years;\n(b) in any other case, 12 months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 431 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 13.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/796/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:27.147925+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."
}