{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/36",
  "legislation_title": "Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022, the references in the following provisions to periods of imprisonment of the general limit in a magistrates’ court are to be read as references to periods of imprisonment of six months—\n(a) section 35(2);\n(b) section 36(2);\n(c) section 37(2);\n(d) section 38(6);\n(e) section 47(4);\n(f) section 68(3);\n(g) section 93(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 16 substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 16 substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/schedule/8/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:06.331080+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."
}