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The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (Automatic Online Conviction and Standard Statutory Penalty) (Specification of Offences and Penalties) Regulations 2024

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (Automatic Online Conviction and Standard Statutory Penalty) (Specification of Offences and Penalties) Regulations 2024 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a section by number alone is a reference to the section so numbered in the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.

(3) A reference in these Regulations to “the table” is a reference to the table in the Schedule.

(4) In the Schedule—

(a)“Railway Byelaws” means the Railway Byelaws made under section 219 of the Transport Act 2000(1) by the Strategic Rail Authority and confirmed under Schedule 20 to the Transport Act 2000(2) by the Secretary of State for Transport on 22nd June 2005 and preserved by section 46(4) of the Railways Act 2005 by the Secretary of State for Transport on 16 October 2005;

(b)“Croydon Tramlink Byelaws” means the Tramlink Byelaws made under section 46 of the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994(3);

(c)“Manchester Metrolink Byelaws” means the Greater Manchester Metrolink System Byelaws made under section 30 of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1988(4);

(d)“Nottingham Express Transit Byelaws” means the Nottingham Express Transit Byelaws 2014, made under Article 53 of the Nottingham Express Transit System Order 2009(5) by Tramlink Nottingham Limited on 23rd February 2014 by agreement with Nottingham City Council and confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport.

(1)

2000 c. 38. Section 219 of the Transport Act 2000 was repealed by Schedule 1, paragraph 36(c) and Schedule 13, Part 1 to the Railways Act 2005. Byelaws made under section 219 of the Transport Act 2000 continue to have effect by virtue of section 46(4) and paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 13 to the Railways Act 2005.

(2)

2000 c. 38. Schedule 20 to the Transport Act 2000 was repealed by Schedule 13 to the Railways Act 2005.

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