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on or after that date which (whether directly or, through successive re-enactments, indirectly) re-enacts with or without modification an enactment passed before that date.

(10) In section 67(6) of the Medicines Act 1968, for “£400” (which gives the maximum fine on summary conviction which can be imposed by regulations under section 66 for contravention of the regulations) there shall be substituted “£1,000”.

(11) In this section "enactment does not include an enactment contained in an order, regulation or other instrument made under an Act.

32.—(1) Where a person convicted on indictment of any offence (whether triable only on indictment or either way) would, apart from this subsection, be liable to a fine not exceeding a specified amount, he shall by virtue of this subsection be liable to a fine of any amount.

(2) In section 27(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (power of a magistrates’ court to fine an offender up to £100 where it would otherwise only have power to sentence him to imprisonment or other detention), for the words from “impose a fine” onwards there shall be substituted the words “impose a fine which—
 * (a) for an offence triable either way, shall not exceed the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 28 of the Criminal Law Act 1977; and
 * (b) for a summary offence, shall—
 * (i) not exceed £200; and
 * (ii) not be of such an amount as would subject the offender, in default of payment of the fine, to a longer term of imprisonment or detention than the term to which he is liable on conviction of the offence.”.

(3) In paragraph 1(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972, for the words “£5 a day” (which give the maximum daily fine with which an offence created under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act can under those powers be made punishable on summary conviction) there shall be substituted the words “£100 a day”.

33. For an offence under section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 (attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive, with intent to endanger life or property in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland) the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed by a court in Great Britain shall be increased from twenty years to life.