Section 80 Certificates about payment etc.F4

England, Wales and Scotland

In any proceedings a certificate—

(a)

that payment of a fixed penalty was or was not received, by a date specified in the certificate, by the F1person to whom it was required to be paid, or

(b)

that a letter containing an amount sent by post in payment of a fixed penalty was marked as posted on a date so specified F2, or

(c)

that the identification requirements specified in section 69(3C) or 75(8B) have been fulfilled,

shall, if the certificate purports to be signed by the person to whom F3the penalty was required to be paid, be evidence (and, in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of the facts stated.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 80 substituted (31.3.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 1 para. 19; S.I. 2008/3164, art. 3(b)
F2: S. 80(c) and word inserted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 12(b); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)
F3: Words in s. 80 substituted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 12(c); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)
F4: Word in s. 80 heading inserted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 12(a); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)

Notes on Part III

Modifications

C1

Pt. III (ss. 51–90) amended by (E.W.) S.I. 1990/335, art. 2(1) and (S.) S.I. 1990/466, art. 2(1)

Pt. III (ss. 51-90) amended (1.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/1851, art. 2(1)

C2

Pt. III modified (16.8.2013) by The Fixed Penalty Offences Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1565), arts. 1, 2

C3

Definition in Pt. III (ss. 51-90) applied (E.W.) (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 18(7)(b), 101(1) (with Sch. 12 para. 6); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2