Part III Satisfaction and Enforcement
Sums adjudged to be paid by a conviction
83 Process for securing attendance of offender F1. . . .
(1)
A magistrates’ court may, for the purpose of enabling inquiry to be made under section 82 above or for securing the attendance of an offender at a hearing required to be held by subsection (5) of that section—
(a)
issue a summons requiring the offender to appear before the court at the time and place appointed in the summons; or
(b)
issue a warrant to arrest him and bring him before the court.
(2)
On the failure of the offender to appear before the court in answer to a summons F2issued under this section, or by virtue of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 the court may issue a warrant to arrest him and bring him before the court.
(3)
A warrant issued under this section may be executed in like manner, and the like proceedings may be taken with a view to its execution, in any part of the United Kingdom, as if it had been issued under section 13 above.
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