# Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, Section 33: Fine and imprisonment.


(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence against a provision of the Traffic Acts specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act or regulations made under any such provision, the maximum punishment by way of fine or imprisonment which may be imposed on him is that shown in column 4 against the offence and (where appropriate) the circumstances or the mode of trial there specified.
(2) Any reference in column 4 of that Part to a period of years or months is to be construed as a reference to a term of imprisonment of that duration.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-33
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