The Fines Collection (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Citation, commencement, duration, extent, definition and transitional provision

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Fines Collection (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 2 of these Regulations and this regulation on 30th March 2005; and

(b) for all other purposes on 1st April 2005.

(2) These Regulations shall cease to have effect on the 31st March 2006.

(3) These Regulations apply to local justice areas, in England and Wales to which the provisions of Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003 have effect in accordance with The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) Order 2004(1).

(4) In these Regulations a reference to the “Fines Collection Regulations 2004(2)” means a reference to that Regulation as amended by the Fines Collection (Amendment) Regulations 2004(3).

(5) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a regulation by number alone is a reference to the regulation so numbered in the Fines Collection Regulations 2004.

(6) Unless the court or fines officer orders otherwise, any orders made by virtue of the Fines Collections Regulations 2004 before 1st April 2005 shall continue to have effect as if these Regulations, other than regulation 2, had not been made.

(1)

S.I. 2004/175 as amended by The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2004 S.I. 2004/1406 and The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2005 S.I. 2005/487

(2)

S.I. 2004/176

(3)

S.I. 2004/1407