- a section 125A(1) warrant
means a warrant to which section 125A(1) above applies...
- Act
includes local Act;
- appeal
means an appeal from a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court, and the reference to a notice to abandon an appeal is a reference to a notice shown to the satisfaction of the magistrates’ court to have been given in accordance with rules of court.
- bail in criminal proceedings
has the same meaning as in the Bail Act 1976;
- basic personal information
means a person’s name, date of birth or national insurance number or the address (or any of the addresses) of a person;
- child
means a person who has not attained the age of 18.
- collection order
means an order made under Part 4 of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003;
- commit to custody
means commit to prison or, where any enactment authorises or requires committal to some other place of detention instead of committal to prison, to that other place;
- disclosure order
has the meaning given by section 125CA(3) above.
- electronic notification
means a written notification given—
- enactment
includes an enactment contained in a local Act or in any order, regulation or other instrument having effect by virtue of an Act;
- fine
includes a pecuniary penalty but does not include a pecuniary forfeiture or pecuniary compensation;
- impose imprisonment
means pass a sentence of imprisonment or fix a term of imprisonment for failure to pay any sum of money, or for want of sufficient goods to satisfy any sum of money, or for failure to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone;
- legal representative
means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act);
- Low-value shoplifting
means an offence under section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 in circumstances where—
- memorial
means— which has a commemorative purpose.
- officer
means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity.
- penalty
means— (a) a fine, (b) penalty points, (c) compensation, (d) prosecution costs, or (e) a surcharge;
- penalty points
has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
- periodical payments order
means an order made by a magistrates’ court... which requires the making of periodical payments, and any payments required under a periodical payments order to be made to a child shall for the purposes of subsection (1) above be treated as if they were required to be made to the person with whom the child has his home.
- premises
includes any place and, in particular, includes— (a) any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft;
- prescribed
means prescribed by rules of court;
- preserved county
has the meaning given by section 64 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994;
- qualifying offence
means any of the following—
- relevant date
means—
- relevant enactment
means an enactment contained in the Criminal Law Act 1977 or in any Act passed before, or in the same Session as, that Act.
- relevant programme
means a programme included in a programme service, within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990.
- relevant prosecutor
has the same meaning as in section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
- relevant public authority
means a Minister of the Crown, government department, local authority or chief officer of police specified in an order made by the Lord Chancellor;
- relevant time
means a time when events giving rise to the charges to which the proceedings relate are alleged to have occurred.
- required documents
means—
- requisition
has the meaning given by section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;
- sentence
includes any order made on conviction by a magistrates’ court, not being— and also includes a declaration of relevance, within the meaning of section 23 of the Football Spectators Act 1989.
- single justice procedure notice
has the meaning given by section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;
- specified
means specified in regulations made by the Lord Chancellor.
- statement
means any representation of fact or opinion.
- sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction
means any fine, costs, compensation or other sum adjudged to be paid by an order made on a finding of guilt, including a compensation order (within the meaning given by section 133 of the Sentencing Code).
- sum enforceable as a civil debt
means— (a) any sum recoverable summarily as a civil debt which is adjudged to be paid by the order of a magistrates’ court;
- the amount outstanding
has the meaning given by paragraph 50(3) of Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.
- the material time
means the time of the alleged offence.
- the prescribed sum
means £5,000 or such sum as is for the time being substituted in this definition by an order in force under section 143(1) below;
- the relevant time
means—
- transfer of fine order
has the meaning assigned to it by section 89 above. • “written charge” has the meaning given by section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;
- wasted costs
means any costs incurred by a party—
- written charge
has the meaning given by section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;