# Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, Section 58: Money recoverable summarily as civil debt.

Extent: E+W

(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.
(2) Any sum payment of which may be ordered by a magistrates’ court shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt except—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/58 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-58
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