{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-82.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/82",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Accounting for fixed penalties: England and Wales.",
  "text": "(1) In England and Wales, sums paid to the fixed penalty clerk by way of fixed penalty for an offence shall be treated for the purposes of section 38 of the Courts Act 2003 (application of receipts of designated officers) as if they were fines imposed on summary conviction for that offence.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(1) inserted (31.3.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 1 para. 20; S.I. 2008/3164, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(1) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 320(2); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 82(2)(2A)(3) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 320(3), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 82 modified (temp.) (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/685, reg. 6(2)(b)S. 82 modified (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, s. 73(1), 74, Sch. 4 Pt. II, para. 7(2)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 82(1)(2): Functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Lord Chancellor (1.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/709, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/82",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:29.437010+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."
}