Jersey Law
29/1993
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
(STANDARD SCALE OF FINES) (JERSEY) LAW 1993
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A LAW to make provision for a standard scale of fines for offences
against enactments, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the
27th day of october 1993
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(Registered on the 10th day of December 1993
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The 22nd day of June 1993
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THE
STATES, subject to
the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council have adopted the
following Law –
ARTICLE 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 to this Law.
(3) The
States may from time to time by Regulations vary any of the amounts specified
in the second column of the standard scale.
ARTICLE 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, that reference shall be construed as a reference
to the standard scale for the time being.
ARTICLE 3
Transitional and
miscellaneous provisions
With regard to
any enactment adopted by the States –
(a) before the adoption of
this Law, or
(b) between the adoption
and the commencement of this Law;
but which is
passed after the commencement of this Law, the amount of any fine specified in
that Law shall be substituted by the level on the standard scale the amount of
fine for which corresponds to the specified amount of the fine.
ARTICLE 4
Short title and
commencement
This Law may be
cited as the Criminal Justice (Standard Scale of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1993 and
shall come into force on such day as the States may by Act appoint.
C.M. NEWCOMBE
Deputy Greffier of the States.
SCHEDULE
(ARTICLE 1(2))
The standard
scale
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First column
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Second column
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Level on the scale
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Amount of fine
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1
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£50
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2
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£500
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3
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£2,000
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4
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£5,000
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