32In section 82 of the [1988 c. 53.] Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (accounting for fixed penalties in England and Wales), for subsection (2) there shall be substituted—
“(2)Where, in England and Wales, a justices' clerk for a petty sessions area comprised in the area of one magistrates' courts committee (“the first committee”) discharges functions in connection with a fixed penalty for an offence alleged to have been committed in a petty sessions area comprised in the area of another magistrates' courts committee (“the second committee”)—
(a)the paying authority or authorities in relation to the second committee must make to the paying authority or authorities in relation to the first committee such payment in connection with the discharge of those functions as may be agreed between all the paying authorities concerned or, in default of such agreement, as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor, and
(b)any such payment between paying authorities shall be taken into account in determining for the purposes of section 59 of the Justices of the [1979 c. 55.] Peace Act 1979 the net cost to the responsible authorities of the functions referred to in subsection (1) of that section.
(2A)In subsection (2) above “paying authority” and “responsible authority” have the same meaning as in section 55 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979.”