Part III Penalties

48 Enforcement of High Court fine by sheriff. C1

In section 196 of the 1975 Act (fines may be enforced in other district), the existing words shall be subsection (1) of that section and after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

2

A fine imposed by the High Court shall be remitted for enforcement to, and shall be enforceable as if it had been imposed by—

a

where the person upon whom the fine was imposed resides in Scotland, the sheriff for the district where that person resides ;

b

where that person resides outwith Scotland, the sheriff before whom he was brought for examination in relation to the offence for which the fine was imposed.