Road Traffic Act 1960

247 Destination of fines

(1) All sums paid to the Secretary of State under section twenty-seven of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, in respect of fines imposed in respect of offences under the foregoing provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder (except offences under subsection (5) of section thirty-three, subsection (2) of section forty-eight, subsection (6) of section forty-nine, subsection (9) of section eighty-one, subsection (7) of section one hundred and forty-one or subsection (2) of section one hundred and forty-eight or offences under regulations made under section thirty-four) shall be deemed to be Exchequer moneys within the meaning of the said section twenty-seven.

(2) All fines imposed in respect of offences under this Act of which the offenders have been convicted on indictment (except an offence under subsection (1) of section one or subsection (2) of section six or an offence under section two hundred and thirty-four consisting in the alteration of an entry made in a record under paragraph 14 of the Twelfth Schedule) shall be paid into the Exchequer in the same manner as penalties and forfeitures recovered under or in pursuance of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, and in accordance with such directions as may be contained with respect to such penalties and forfeitures in any Order in Council for the time being in force under that Act, and so shall all fines imposed in respect of offences committed in Scotland under the foregoing provisions of this Act, or the regulations made thereunder, being offences of which the offenders have been convicted otherwise than on indictment (except offences under the following provisions, namely, subsection (2) of section six, subsection (1) of section twelve, section fifteen, section seventeen, subsection (2) of section forty-eight, subsection (6) of section forty-nine, subsection (1) of section sixty-six, subsection (4) of section sixty-seven, section eighty-eight, subsection (2) of section one hundred and forty-eight, subsection (1) of section two hundred and twenty, subsection (2) of section two hundred and twenty-one, section two hundred and twenty-nine and section two hundred and thirty-eight, an offence under subsection (4) of section two hundred and twenty-five consisting in a contravention of subsection (2) or (3) of that section and an offence under section two hundred and thirty-four consisting in the alteration of an entry made in a record under paragraph 14 of the Twelfth Schedule).