{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-99.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/99",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Proof of non-payment of sum adjudged.",
  "text": "Where a magistrates’ court has ordered one person to pay to another any sum of money, and proceedings are taken before that or any other magistrates’ court to enforce payment of that sum, then—\n(a) if the person to whom the sum is ordered to be paid is the designated officer for a magistrates' court , a certificate purporting to be signed by the designated officer that the sum has not been paid to him; and\n(b) in any other case a document purporting to be a statutory declaration by the person to whom the sum is ordered to be paid that the sum has not been paid to him,\nshall be admissible as evidence that the sum has not been paid to him, unless the court requires the designated officer or other person to be called as a witness.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 232(a); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 232(b); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 232(b); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/99",
    "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."
}