The Criminal Legal Aid (Motor Vehicle Orders) Regulations 2013

Recovery of charges due other than from the proceeds of sale

28.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) regulation 23(1)(c)(i) applies; or

(b) regulations 25 or 26(1)(b)(i) apply and the charges due are not recovered in full.

(2) The balance of the charges due is recoverable—

(a) summarily as a civil debt; and

(b) if the High Court or a county court so orders on the application of the Lord Chancellor, as if they were payable under an order of the court in question.

(3) Where a complaint is made for the recovery of charges referred to in paragraph (1), the powers conferred on a magistrates’ court by section 58 of the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980(1) may be exercised by a single justice.

(1)

1980 c. 43. Section 58 was amended by section 33 of, paragraph 80 of Schedule 2 to, and paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 3 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42).