{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/78",
  "legislation_title": "Tramways Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Penalties may be imposed in byelaws.",
  "text": "Any such byelaw may impose reasonable penalties for offences against the same, not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale for each offence, with or without further penalties for continuing offences, not exceeding for any continuing offence 50p for every day during which the offence continues; but all byelaws shall be so framed as to allow in every case part only of the maximum penalty being ordered to be paid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 43-47 repealed (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order) (1.1.1993) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(b), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt.I; S.I. 1992/2784, art. 2(b), Sch. 2 Pt.I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 40, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 47 amended by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/78/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:37.315790+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."
}