Part II Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure

Civil debt

58 Money recoverable summarily as civil debt.

(1)

A magistrates’ court shall have power to make an order on complaint for the payment of any money recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

(2)

Any sum payment of which may be ordered by a magistrates’ court shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt except—

(a)

a sum recoverable on complaint for F1a magistrates’ court maintenance order; or

(b)

a sum that may be adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction or by an order enforceable as if it were a summary conviction.