Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretationI1

These Regulations may be cited as the Fines Collection Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on the 27th March 2006.

These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

In these Regulations—

• “attachable earnings” has the same meaning as it has in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971^f1;

• “authorised person” means a person who is employed by the contractor and is authorised to carry out or direct and supervise the clamping, release from clamping, removal and release from storage, of vehicles.

• “charges due” means any charge to payable to the contractor by P in addition to the sum due—

  1. (a)

     when payment is made to an authorised person so that the vehicle is not clamped,

  2. (b)

     as a condition of the release of the vehicle from clamping, and

  3. (c)

     as a condition of the removal, storage and release of the vehicle from storage,

  within the range approved by the Lord Chancellor for such charges;

• “clamp” means an immobilisation device and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

• “clamping contractor” means a person authorised to undertake the clamping, removal and storage of vehicles by and in accordance with a contract with the Lord Chancellor or the designated officer for a court, “the contractor” means the clamping contractor;

• “clamping notice” means a notice affixed to a car to inform the owner that their car is clamped;

• “earnings” has the same meaning as it has in section 24 of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971;

• “pay-day” has the same meaning as it has in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971;

• “Schedule 5” means Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003;

• “vehicle” means a motor vehicle,

• “working day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or bank holiday,

• and, save where the context requires otherwise, a reference to clamping or storage includes release from clamping or, as the case may be, release from storage.