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One of the three forms of Sentencing defined under current legislation; the others are Custodial sentence and Community sentence.

Currently the maximum amounts payable as fines are not specified in Statute as amounts of money, but as one of five levels on the 'standard scale'. Currently, these are as follows.

1 £200 2 £500 3 £1,000 4 £2,500

5 £5,000