Paragraph 8 Recovery of expenses of enforcement

This paragraph shall apply where a court convicts a person of an offence in respect of a contravention of any provision of these Regulations.

The court may (in addition to any other order it may make as to costs and expenses) order the person convicted to reimburse an enforcement authority for any expenditure which has been or may be incurred by that authority in connection with any seizure or detention by or on behalf of the authority of any F1EU certificate of conformity, fuel economy label, poster or display, promotional literature or records relating thereto.