Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 1 Ch. 1 extended (15.11.2003) by Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), ss. 38, 108, Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(a); S.I. 2003/2593, art. 2(d)
C2Pt. 1 Ch. 1 modified (26.12.2004) by The Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3166), art. 6
(1)If the [F1designated officer for a local justice] area receives a registration certificate, he must register the registrable sum for enforcement as a fine in that area by entering it in the register of a magistrates’ court acting for that area.
(2)But if it appears to him that the defaulter does not reside in that area—
(a)subsection (1) does not apply to him; but
(b)he must cause the certificate to be sent to the person appearing to him to be the [F2designated officer for the local justice area in which the defaulter resides] .
(3)A [F3designated officer] registering a sum under this section for enforcement as a fine, must give the defaulter notice of the registration.
(4)The notice must—
(a)specify the amount of the sum registered, and
(b)give the information with respect to the offence, and the authority for registration, which was included in the registration certificate under section 8.
(5)If a sum is registered in a magistrates’ court as a result of this section, any enactment referring (in whatever terms) to a fine imposed, or other sum adjudged to be paid, on conviction by such a court applies as if the registered sum were a fine imposed by that court on the conviction of the defaulter on the date on which the sum was registered.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 9(1) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 400(2); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3
F2Words in s. 9(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 400(3); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3
F3Words in s. 9(3) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 400(4); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3