{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/43",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Proceedings for offences.",
  "text": "(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided, all offences and fines under the special Act or any byelaws made thereunder may be prosecuted and recovered under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 but all such offences shall be triable only summarily.\n(2) Any offence under the special Act or under any byelaws made thereunder (other than an offence in respect of which, if it is continued, a further penalty may be imposed) for which the maximum penalty that may be imposed does not exceed level 1 on the standard scale may be prosecuted in any court of summary jurisdiction within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975, having jurisdiction in the place where the offence was committed.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that conduct in respect of which a person is made liable to a fine by or under the provisions of this Schedule is an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 77, Sch. 15 para. 29(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289G, 457A"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 sect. 43(3) inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), s. 80(2), s. 77, Sch. 15 para. 29(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2003/3",
      "affecting_title": "Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/schedule/4/paragraph/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:16.376021+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."
}