PART IICivil Jurisdiction and Procedure

Civil debt

58Money 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 an affiliation order or order enforceable as an affiliation 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.