Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

89 Transfer of fine order.E+W

(1)Where a magistrates’ court [F1in a local justice area] has, or is treated by any enactment as having, adjudged a person by a conviction to pay a sum and it appears to the court [F2, or where that sum is the subject of a collection order, it appears to the court or the fines officer as the case may be,] that the person is residing [F3in England and Wales] , the court [F4or the fines officer, as the case may be,] may make a transfer of fine order, that is to say, an order making payments enforceable in [F5another local justice area] and that area shall be specified in the order.

[F6(2)As from the date on which a transfer of fine order is made with respect to any sum, all functions under this Part of this Act or under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 relating to that sum which, if no order had been made, would have been exercisable by any court or person mentioned in column 1 of the Table below shall be exercisable by the court or person mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2, and not otherwise.

Table
Column 1Column 2

(A) The court which made the order.

(B) A court acting in the same local justice

In either case, a court acting in the local justice area specified in the order.

area as was the fines officer who made the 
The designated officer for the court mentioned in the row above.The designated officer for the court mentioned in the row above.

(A) The fines officer who made the order.

(B) A fines officer acting in the same local justice area as was the court which made the order.

In either case, a fines officer acting in the local justice area specified in the order.]

[F7(2A)The functions of the court to which subsection (2) above relates shall be deemed to include the court’ [F8under this Part of this Act] s power to apply to the Secretary of State under any regulations made by him under section 24(1)(a) of the M1Criminal Justice Act 1991 (power to deduct fines etc. from income support).]

[F9(3)A court [F10or a fines officer, as the case may be, by which or whom] functions in relation to any sum are for the time being exercisable by virtue of a transfer of fine order may make a further transfer of fine order with respect to that sum.]

(4)In this section and sections 90 and 91 below, references to this Part of this Act do not include references to section 81(1) above.

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 89 applied (with modifications) (temp.) (23.2.2004 and 29.3.2004 for certain purposes, otherwise 5.4.2004 until 31.3.2006) by The Fines Collection Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/176), regs. 1(3), 6(a) (with reg. 3) (as amended (30.3.2005) by S.I. 2005/484, regs. 1(1)(a)(2), 2, 4, 6)

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