PART 3PROSECUTORIAL FINES

Non-payment of prosecutorial fine

23Registration certificates

1

This section and section 24 apply where by virtue of section 22 an enhanced sum may be registered under section 24 for enforcement against any person as a fine.

2

In this section and section 24—

a

that sum is referred to as a “sum payable in default”, and

b

the person against whom that sum may be so registered is referred to as the “defaulter”.

3

The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland—

a

may in respect of any sum payable in default issue a certificate (a “registration certificate”) stating that the sum is registrable under section 24 for enforcement against the defaulter as a fine; and

b

must cause any certificate so issued to be sent to the fines clerk.

4

A registration certificate must—

a

give particulars of the offence or offences to which the prosecutorial fine notice relates; and

b

state the name and last known address of the defaulter and the amount of the sum payable in default.