Criminal Justice
(Standard Scale of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1993
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Criminal Justice
(Standard Scale of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1993
A LAW to make provision for a standard scale of fines for offences against enactments
Commencement [see endnotes]
1 Standard scale of fines
(1) There
shall be a standard scale of fines for offences which shall be known as the
“standard scale”.
(2) The
standard scale shall be as set out in the Schedule.
(3) The
States may from time to time by Regulations vary any of the amounts specified
in the second column of the standard scale.
2 Construction of enactments
Where an enactment provides or confers a power to provide that a
person convicted of an offence shall be liable on conviction to a fine by
reference to a specified level on the standard scale or, in the case of an
enactment in the French language, by reference to a specified niveau
du tarif uniforme, that reference shall be construed as a reference to the standard
scale for the time being.[1]
3 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Criminal Justice
(Standard Scale of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1993.