Magistrates' Courts Act 1980

Civil debt

58Money recoverable summarily as civil debt

(1)A magistrates' court shall have power to make an order on complaint for the payment of any money recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

(2)Any sum payment of which may be ordered by a magistrates' court shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt except—

(a)a sum recoverable on complaint for an affiliation order or order enforceable as an affiliation order; or

(b)a sum that may be adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction or by an order enforceable as if it were a summary conviction.