Regulation 6 Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Contribution Orders) Regulations 2009

After regulation 35 insert—

“PART 4

ENFORCEMENT

Costs of enforcement

36.

Where the Commission incurs costs in connection with the enforcement of a contribution order it may add those costs to the amount due under the order.

Recovery of overdue sums

37.

(1)

Any overdue sums are—

(a)

recoverable summarily as a civil debt;

(b)

recoverable, if the High Court or a county court so orders on the application of the Commission, as if they were payable under an order of the court in question.

(2)

Where a complaint is made for the recovery of an overdue sum as a civil debt, the powers conferred on a magistrates’ court by section 58 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980^f1 may be exercised by a single justice.”.