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<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/39" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2003" Number="0039">Courts Act 2003</Citation>
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20 November 2003
Commentary on Sections: Part 2
Fines officers and designated officers
<CitationSubRef id="c00131" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/39/section/36" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-36">Section 36</CitationSubRef>: Fines Officers
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This section provides for the Lord Chancellor to designate fines officers who may be appointed or provided under contract by the Lord Chancellor and whose role will be to manage the collection and enforcement of fines. Fines officers will play a key role in the operation of the fine enforcement scheme in Schedule 5.
<CitationSubRef id="c00133" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/39/section/37" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-37">Section 37</CitationSubRef>: Designated officers and magistrates’ courts
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Section 37 allows the Lord Chancellor to designate members of staff of the courts agency in order to perform certain statutory functions in relation to the business of the magistrates’ courts. Many of these functions are currently assigned to JCEs and are administrative in nature. Schedule 8 makes appropriate consequential amendments to other Acts of Parliament.