The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment No 2) Order 2005

This Statutory Instrument has been made to insert an omission from S.I. 2005/487 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that statutory instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 642

MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment No 2) Order 2005

Made

9th March 2005

Laid before Parliament

10th March 2005

Coming into force

2nd April 2005

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 97(5) and (6) and 108(6) of the Courts Act 2003(1) hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and duration

1.  This Order may be cited as the Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment No 2) Order 2005 and shall come into force on the 2nd April 2005 and cease to have effect on the 31st March 2006.

Amendment to the Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) Order 2004

2.  In paragraph (m) of article 3 of the Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) Order 2004(2), in the text substituted by that article for sub-paragraphs (1) to (5) of paragraph 37 of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, after “under paragraph 26” insert “or any order made under paragraph 26 has failed”.

On the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Christopher Leslie

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Constitutional Affairs

9th March 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) Order 2004 (“the 2004 Order”). The 2004 Order established schemes for the piloting of different provisions of the fines collection scheme contained in Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003. The Collection of Fines (Pilot Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2005 (“the 2005 Order”) along with the addition in this Order (which was inadvertently omitted from the 2005 Order) amends the local pilot scheme in light of evaluation of those pilots.

This Order comes into effect after the 2005 Order comes into force on 1st April 2005. Therefore article 2 of this Order amends the text substituted into the 2004 Order by the 2005 Order.

Article 2 allows for further steps to be implemented by the Fines Officer in a case where an attachment to earnings order or a deductions from benefit application has failed.