{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Money recoverable summarily as civil debt.",
  "text": "(1) A magistrates’ court shall have power to make an order on complaint for the payment of any money recoverable summarily as a civil debt.\n(2) Any sum payment of which may be ordered by a magistrates’ court shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt except—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) a sum that may be adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction or by an order enforceable as if it were a summary conviction.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 58(2)(a) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 10 para. 40; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(d) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 58 applied (2.1.2013) by The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3032), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 5(3)(a) (with regs. 5, 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}