A fine is available to the Crown Court where it is dealing with an offender who is convicted on indictment for an offence—
instead of, or
in addition to,
dealing with the offender in any other way which is available to the court.
Subsection (1)—
does not apply where the offence is one in relation to which a mandatory sentence requirement applies by virtue of any of the following provisions of section 399—
paragraph (a) (life sentence for murder etc),
paragraph (b) (other mandatory life sentences),
paragraph (ba) (serious terrorism sentences), or
paragraph (c)(iv) (minimum sentence for third domestic burglary offence),
is subject to any other enactment requiring the offender to be dealt with in a particular way, and
does not apply if the court is precluded from sentencing the offender by its exercise of some other power.
Nothing in subsection (1) affects the maximum amount of a fine to which a person is liable for an offence committed before 1 December 2020.