The Criminal Defence Service (Contribution Orders) Regulations 2009

Amount payable under income contribution order

9.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (7), the income contribution order is to be for six monthly payments of one twelfth of 90 per cent of the individual’s annual disposable income as determined under regulation 8(4) and (5).

(2) Where the individual is liable under regulation 8(10), the order is to be for six monthly payments of—

(a) the higher of £900 and one twelfth of the individual’s annual disposable income, where the assessing authority is able to determine it under regulation 8(4) and (5); or

(b) £900, where the assessing authority is unable so to determine it.

(3) Where—

(a) paragraph (1) or (2) applies, and

(b) the individual makes the first five required payments on or before the due date,

the individual is not liable to make the sixth payment under the income contribution order.

(4) The amount payable under an income contribution order is not to exceed the specified amount for the class within which the offence with which the individual was charged falls (regardless of the classification of the offences charged in the indictment).

(5) Where the individual is charged with offences falling within more than one class, the relevant class shall be that for which the specified amount is the higher or highest.

(6) The classes and offences which fall within them are those listed in the Table of Offences in Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007(1).

(7) The specified amounts are—

(a) Class A: homicide and related grave offences - £185,806;

(b) Class B: offences involving serious violence or damage, and serious drugs offences - £29,453;

(c) Class C: lesser offences involving violence or damage, and less serious drugs offences - £7,970;

(d) Class D: sexual offences and offences against children - £13,776;

(e) Class E: burglary etc. - £6,731;

(f) Class F: other offences of dishonesty (specified offences and offences where the value is £30,000 or less) - £6,754;

(g) Class G: other offences of dishonesty (specified offences and offences where the value involved exceeds £30,000 but does not exceed £100,000) - £117,368;

(h) Class H: miscellaneous other offences - £7,427;

(i) Class I: offences against public justice and similar offences - £28,023;

(j) Class J: serious sexual offences - £17,892;

(k) Class K: other offences of dishonesty (high value) (where the value involved exceeds £100,000) - £153,039.

(1)

S.I. 2007/1174; there are no relevant amendments.