Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984

Payment where imprisonment imposed

141.—(1) The persons authorised for the purposes of Article 111 of the Order to receive payment are:—

(a) unless there has been issued to the Royal Ulster Constabulary a warrant of commitment, the clerk of petty sessions;

(b) any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary holding the warrant of commitment; or

(c) any governor of the prison in which the prisoner is confined or any other person having lawful custody of the prisoner.

(2) No person shall be required to receive in part payment under Article 111(2) of the Order an amount which, or so much of an amount as, will not procure a reduction of the period for which the defaulter is committed or ordered to be detained.

(3) Where a person having custody of the prisoner receives payment of any sum he shall endorse a certificate of receipt of the sum on the warrant of commitment and shall pay over the said sum to the clerk of petty sessions.

(4) Nothing in this Rule shall derogate from the provisions of section 5 of the Fines Act (Ireland) 1851.

(5) This Rule shall apply to committal orders under Article 107 of the Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 as it applies to warrants of commitment.