Regulation 6 Recovery of sums due under a wasted costs order

Where the person required to make a payment in respect of sums due under a wasted costs order fails to do so, the payment may be recovered summarily as a sum adjudged to be paid as a civil debt by order of a magistrates' court by the party benefiting from the order, save that where he was receiving services funded for him as part of the Criminal Defence Service, the power to recover shall be exercisable by the Lord Chancellor, and where he was receiving services under a legal aid scheme operated by any of Her Majesty’s forces, the power to recover shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State for Defence.