3 Automatic online conviction and penalty for certain summary offences
Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (2022 c 35) | Legislation

Part 2 Courts, Tribunals and Coroners

Chapter 1
Criminal Procedure

Written procedures for dealing with summary offences

3  Automatic online conviction and penalty for certain summary offences

After section 16F of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 insert—

“Automatic online conviction and penalty for certain summary offences
16G The automatic online conviction option

(1)     In this Act a reference to a person being offered the automatic online conviction option in respect of an offence is a reference to the person being given an electronic notification which explains that if the person intends to plead guilty the person may agree—

(a)     to be convicted of the offence under section 16H, and

(b)     to be penalised for the offence under section 16I.

(2)     In this Act a reference to a person accepting the automatic online conviction option in respect of an offence is a reference to the person giving an electronic notification which indicates that the person—

(a)     pleads guilty to the offence,

(b)     agrees to be convicted of the offence under section 16H, and

(c)     agrees to be penalised for the offence under section 16I.

(3)     A notification purporting to be given by a person (or the person's legal

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