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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-appeals-under-section-24-order-2008/article-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1863",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Appeals under Section 24) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-appeals-under-section-24-order-2008",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Recovery of sums due under a third party costs order",
  "text": "Where the person required to make a payment in respect of sums due under a third party costs order fails to do so, the payment may be recovered summarily as a sum adjudged to be paid as a civil debt by order of a magistrates’ court by the person benefiting from the order, save that where that person was in receipt of services funded for that person by the Legal Services Commission or an order for the payment of costs out of central funds was made in that person’s favour, the power to recover shall be exercisable by the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/534",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1863/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:27:41.762272+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."
}