The Bus Lane Contraventions (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2005

Enforcement by execution

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35.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a sum of money—

(a)representing an increased penalty charge recoverable in accordance with regulation 33; and

(b)payable by a person (other than the enforcing authority) under an adjudication of an adjudicator which is recoverable in accordance with regulation 25,

as if it were payable under a county court order shall be treated for the purposes of enforcement by execution as if it were a specified debt in article 2 of the Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts Order 1993(1) (“the 1993 Order”).

(2) For the purposes of enforcement of payment of a sum referred to in paragraph (1)—

(a)any reference in the 1993 Order to the authority shall be a reference to the enforcing authority; and

(b)the reference in article 3(1) of the 1993 Order to the time for serving a statutory declaration shall be a reference to (as the case may be)—

(i)the period of 21 days allowed by regulation 34(1)(c); or

(ii)where a longer period has been allowed pursuant to regulation 34(3), that period.