PART 3PROSECUTORIAL FINES
Non-payment of prosecutorial fine
22Failure to pay prosecutorial fine
1
This section applies if—
a
a prosecutorial fine notice is issued to a person under section 18; and
b
by the end of the period allowed for payment, the fine has not been paid in accordance with this Part.
2
The enhanced sum may be registered under section 24 for enforcement against that person as a fine.
3
The fines clerk must notify the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland that the prosecutorial fine has not been paid.
4
Except in a case falling within subsection (5) or (7), the enhanced sum is a sum equal to one and a half times the amount of the prosecutorial fine.
5
Where—
a
the offence to which the prosecutorial fine notice issued under section 18(2) relates is an offence under Article 3(1) of the Criminal Damage (Northern Ireland) Order 1977; and
b
in calculating the prosecutorial fine an amount has been included under section 19(2)(c),
the enhanced sum is the amount specified in subsection (6).
6
That amount is the aggregate of—
a
one and a half times the amount determined by the Public Prosecutor under section 19(2)(a);
b
one and a half times the amount mentioned in section 19(2)(b); and
c
the amount determined by the Public Prosecutor under section 19(2)(c).
7
Where—
a
the offences to which a prosecutorial fine notice issued under section 18(3) relates includes one or more offences under Article 3(1) of the Criminal Damage (Northern Ireland) Order 1977; and
b
in calculating the prosecutorial fine an amount has been included under section 19(4)(c),
the enhanced sum is the amount specified in subsection (8).
8
That amount is the aggregate of—
a
one and a half times the amount determined by the Public Prosecutor under section 19(4)(a);
b
one and a half times the amount mentioned in section 19(4)(b); and
c
the amount determined by the Public Prosecutor under section 19(4)(c).