{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/schedule-4/paragraph-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/schedule-4/paragraph-102.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/40",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/102",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 53 of that Act there shall be substituted—\n“ Amount of fixed penalty.\n53 (1) The fixed penalty for an offence is—\n(a) such amount as the Secretary of State may by order prescribe, or\n(b) one half of the maximum amount of the fine to which a person committing that offence would be liable on summary conviction,\nwhichever is the less.\n(2) Any order made under subsection (1)(a) may make different provision for different cases or classes of case or in respect of different areas.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 102 excluded (3.2.1992) by S.I. 1992/199, art.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 102 in force at 1.4.1992 but not in relation to an offence alleged to have been committed before this date see s. 84 and S.I. 1992/199, arts. 3(2)(b), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/12",
      "affecting_title": "Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/12",
      "affecting_title": "Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/40/schedule/4/paragraph/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:08.642287+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."
}