Part 3: Unmanned aircraft Fixed penalty notices Legal Background
Payment of an FPN is not an admission of guilt and payment of an FPN allows a person to avoid prosecution in relation to the offence.
	Schedule 10 refers to the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 and provides in paragraph 9(15) that section 85 of that Act, which gives the power to remit a fine in whole or in part, applies to a sum registered in a magistrates’ court by virtue of paragraph 9. Section 85 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 provides that where a fine has been imposed on conviction of an offender by a magistrates’ court, the court may at any time remit the whole or any part of the fine. This may only be done when the court thinks this is just, having regard to a change of circumstances which has occurred in certain circumstances set out at section 85(1).