# The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025, Rule 30.1: When this Part applies

Extent: E+W

(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 30.7 to 30.9 apply where the court, or a fines officer, issues a warrant for an enforcement agent to take control of a defendant’s goods and sell them, using the procedure in Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.
(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 1980; and
(b) Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 and the Fines Collection Regulations 2006.
Under that Schedule and those Regulations, some enforcement powers may be exercised by a fines officer.
See also section 62 of, and Schedule 12 to, the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. In that Act, a warrant to which this Part applies is described as ‘a warrant of control’.]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/30.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-30.1
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