Section 38 Penalties how to be recovered.
All penalties imposed by this Act shall and may be recovered as a debt due to his Majesty, by information to be filed in the name of his Majesty’s attorney general for England or for F1Northern Ireland, as the case may be, in the F2High Court or the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland respectively, or in the name of his Majesty’s advocate general in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. 1921/1802 (Rev. XVI, p. 954: 1921, p. 1332), art. 2(2) also, as regards N.I. by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 5 para. 1
- F2
Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), ss. 18, 224(1) and Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 (c. 57), ss. 21, 71 and S.R. & O. 1921/1802 (Rev. XVI, p. 954: 1921, p. 1332), art. 2(1)