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82c. 43

(4) The powers conferred by subsections (1) and (2) above shall be exercisable only within the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the sentence or order was imposed or made or the person was found guilty, as the case may be, and only—
 * (a) by a court constituted in the same manner as the court by which the sentence or order was imposed or made or, as the case may be, by which the person in question was found guilty, or
 * (b) where that court comprised 3 or more justices of the peace, by a court which consists of or comprises a majority of those justices.

(5) Where a sentence or order is varied under subsection (1) above, the sentence or other order, as so varied, shall take effect from the beginning of the day on which it was originally imposed or made, unless the court otherwise directs. Power to alter sums specified in certain provisions

143.—(1) If it appears to the Secretary of State that there has been a change in the value of money since the last occasion when the sum or sums specified in a provision mentioned in subsection (2) below were fixed, he may by order substitute for the sum or sums for the time being specified in that provision such other sum or sums as appear to him justified by the change.

(2) The said provisions are—
 * (a) section 22(1) above;
 * (b) the definition of “the prescribed sum” in section 32(9) above;
 * (c) paragraph (a) of section 33(1) above;
 * (d) section 40(1) above;
 * (e) the Table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act.

(3) A sum specified in a provision mentioned in subsection (2) above (a “relevant provision”) may have been fixed as mentioned in subsection (1) above—
 * (a) by the coming into force of a provision of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (being a provision re-enacted in the relevant provision concerned or a provision amending a provision of another Act so re-enacted), or
 * (b) by an order made under subsection (1) above in respect of the relevant provision concerned.

(4) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that the difference between a sum to which subsection (5) below applies and the prescribed sum (within the meaning of section 32 above) has