{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/48",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "To whom payments are to be made",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Where payment of any sum or instalment of any sum adjudged to be paid by the conviction or order of a magistrates' court is made to any person other than the designated officer for the court, that person, unless he is the person to whom the court has directed payment to be made or, in the case of a child, is the person with whom the child has his home, shall, as soon as may be, account for and, if the designated officer so requires, pay over the sum or instalment to the designated officer for the court.\n(3) Where payment of any sum adjudged to be paid by the conviction or order of a magistrates' court, or any instalment of such a sum, is directed to be made to the designated officer for some other magistrates' court, the designated officer for the court that adjudged the sum to be paid shall pay over any sums received by him on account of the said sum or instalment to the designated officer for that other court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 48(1) omitted (28.6.2021) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(12)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 48(1)-(3) substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Rules substituted (1.4.2005) by The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/617), art. 1, Sch. para. 85"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 48(2) substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 48 replaced (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/384), rule 52.2 (with rule 2.1); [Editorial note: This rule, the substance of which is reproduced in and referred to by the Criminal Procedure Rules, is revoked when those Rules come into force by virtue of the provisions of 2003 c. 39, S.I. 2004/2066 and S.I. 2004/2035, see CrimPR rule 2.1 note.]"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rule 48 applied (6.4.2011) by The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2955), rule 9.2 (with rules 2.1, 9.1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 48 in force at 6.7.1981, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:56.682539+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."
}