Office of Public Sector Information

Office of Public Sector Information

Advanced Search

Main navigation

Supplementary menus and contents

Related Pages
Feeds

Page 1 of 18

Next

First page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Last page

Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to SLD for the following years: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. See the Tables of Legislative effects and the Update status of legislation page on the SLD website.

Royal arms

Criminal Justice Act 1982

1982 CHAPTER 48

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Treatment of Young Offenders

    1. Custody and detention of persons under 21

      1. 1. General restriction on custodial sentences

      2. 1A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 1B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 1C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 4—7... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9. 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      10. 10. Computation of custodial sentences for young offenders

    2. Accommodation of young offenders

      1. 11. Provision of premises for young offenders etc

      2. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. Provisions supplementary to sections 1 to 12

      1. 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 15.

    4. Attendance centres

      1. 16.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. Supervision orders

      1. 20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 21.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. Offences by person subject to care order owing to previous offence

      1. 22.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    7. Care orders and children in care

      1. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 24.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 25.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    8. Sanctions against parents and guardians

      1. 26.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 28. Increase of limit on amount of recognisance to be taken from parents and guardians

  2. Part II

    Partial Suspension of Sentences, Early Release, Release on Licence or Bail etc

    1. Bail

      1. 29. Power of Crown Court to grant bail pending appeal

    2. Suspended sentences

      1. 30. Prison sentence partly served and partly suspended

      2. 31. Activation of suspended sentence

    3. Early release

      1. 32. Early release of prisoners

    4. Release on licence

      1. 33.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. Computation of sentences

      1. 34.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part III

    Fines etc

    1. Abolition of enhanced penalties

      1. 35. Abolition of enhanced penalties on subsequent conviction of summary offences under Acts of Parliament

      2. 36. Abolition of enhanced penalties under subordinate instruments

    2. Introduction of standard scale of fines

      1. 37. The standard scale of fines for summary offences

    3. Increase of fines

      1. 38. General increase of fines for summary offences under Acts of Parliament

      2. 39. Special cases

      3. 40. General increase of fines under subordinate instruments

      4. 41. Emergency regulations

      5. 42. Orders relating to spread of pests

      6. 43.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 44.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8. 45.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. Application of standard scale to existing enactments

      1. 46. Conversion of references to amounts to references to levels on scale

      2. 47. Provisions supplementary to sections 35 to 46

    5. Power to alter maximum fines etc

      1. 48. Power to alter sums

    6. Shipping and oil pollution

      1. 49.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 50. Fines for offences against regulations relating to wireless telegraphy apparatus on foreign ships and aircraft

    7. Fine enforcement

      1. 51. Variation of instalments and means inquiries

      2. 52. Reciprocal execution in England and Wales and Northern Ireland of warrants of commitment for non-payment of sum adjudged to be paid by conviction

  4. Part IV

  5. Part V

    Miscellaneous

    1. The Chief Inspectors of Prisons

      1. 57. Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectors of Prisons

    2. Courts-martial etc

      1. 58. Courts-martial and Standing Civilian Courts

    3. Persons remanded in custody

      1. 59. Remand in custody in absence of accused

      2. 60. Applications to Crown Court for bail by persons remanded in custody

    4. Committal on written statements

      1. 61. Legal representation in case of committal on written statements

    5. Requirement of social inquiry reports

      1. 62.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. Deferment of sentence

      1. 63.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    7. Persons recommended for deportation

      1. 64. Persons recommended by courts for deportation

    8. Probation and after-care

      1. 65.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 66. Right of appeal of probationer etc

    9. Compensation

      1. 67.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. Community service

      1. 68. Community service orders

    11. 69. Imprisonment for fine defaulters etc

    12. Vagrancy

      1. 70. Vagrancy offences

    13. Loitering and soliciting

      1. 71. Abolition of imprisonment for loitering and soliciting for purposes of prostitution

    14. Unsworn statements

      1. 72. Abolition of right of accused to make unsworn statement

    15. Recall of witnesses

      1. 73. Recall of witnesses

    16. Interpretation

      1. 74, 75.. Construction of references to “statutory maximum"

    17. Supplementary

      1. 76. Financial provision

      2. 77. Minor and consequential amendments

      3. 78. Repeals

      4. 79. Transitional

      5. 80. Commencement

      6. 81. Citation and extent

  6. SCHEDULE 1

    Offences Excluded from Section 32

  7. SCHEDULE 2

    Fines to remain at their present level

  8. SCHEDULE 3

    Special Increases

  9. SCHEDULE 4

    Fines imposed otherwise than on conviction

  10. SCHEDULE 5

    . .

  11. SCHEDULE 6

  12. SCHEDULE 7

  13. SCHEDULE 8

    Courts-Martial etc

  14. SCHEDULE 9

    Amendments of Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 relating to remands in custody

  15. SCHEDULE 10

    Amendments of Schedule 3 to Immigration Act 1971

  16. SCHEDULE 11

  17. SCHEDULE 12

    Community Service Orders—England and Wales

  18. SCHEDULE 13

    Community Service Orders—Reciprocal Arrangements

  19. SCHEDULE 14

    Minor and Consequential Amendments

  20. SCHEDULE 15

    Minor and Consequential Amendments Scotland

  21. SCHEDULE 16

    Repeals

  22. SCHEDULE 17

    Transitional Provisions

An Act to make further provision as to the sentencing and treatment of offenders (including provision as to the enforcement of fines and the standardisation of fines and of certain other sums specified in enactments relating to the powers of criminal courts); to make provision for the prescribing of criteria for the placing and keeping of children in different descriptions of accommodation in community homes; to amend the law of Scotland relating to the mode of trial of certain offences and the recall of witnesses; to amend the law of England and Wales relating to the remand in custody of accused persons and to the grant of bail to persons convicted or sentenced in the Crown Court; to abolish (subject to savings) the right of a person accused in criminal proceedings under the law of England and Wales to make an unsworn statement; and for connected purposes.

[28th October 1982]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1991 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts.

Extent Information

E1Act extends to England and Wales only but for exceptions to this see s. 81(2)-(13)

Page 1 of 18

Next

First page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Last page