PART 52ENFORCEMENT OF FINES AND OTHER ORDERS FOR PAYMENT
When this Part applies52.1
1
This Part applies where a magistrates’ court can enforce payment of—
a
a fine, or a sum that legislation requires the court to treat as a fine; or
b
any other sum that a court has ordered to be paid—
i
on a conviction, or
ii
on the forfeiture of a surety.
2
Rules 52.7 to 52.9 apply where the court, or a fines officer, issues a warrant that requires someone to—
a
take control of goods or money belonging to the defendant;
b
remove and sell any such goods; and
c
pay any such money, and any proceeds of such a sale, to the court officer towards payment of a sum to which this Part applies.
3
In this Part—
a
‘defendant’ means anyone liable to pay a sum to which this Part applies;
b
‘payment terms’ means by when, and by what (if any) instalments, such a sum must be paid.
[Note. For the means by which a magistrates’ court may enforce payment, see—
a
Part 3 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980681; and
Under that Schedule and those Regulations, some enforcement powers may be exercised by a fines officer.
In some legislation, including the 1980 and 2003 Acts, a warrant to which this Part applies was described as ‘a warrant of distress’. In the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007684, such a warrant is described as ‘a warrant of control’.]