Paragraph 4

Any expenses incurred by the clerk of a magistrates’ court in recovering any sum required to be paid by a contribution order shall be treated for the purposes of Part VI of F1the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 as expenses of the magistrates’ courts committee.

Any sum paid to a clerk of a magistrates’ court in or towards satisfaction of a liability imposed by a contribution order shall be paid by him to the Lord Chancellor and section 60(4) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (regulations as to accounts of justices’ clerks) shall apply in relation to sums payable to the Lord Chancellor under this sub-paragraph as it applies in relation to sums payable to the Secretary of State under that section.