Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

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(1)Regulations may make provision about the enforcement of an obligation to make a payment imposed under section 23.

(2)The regulations may, in particular, make provision for costs incurred in connection with the enforcement of an individual's obligation to make a payment to be recovered from the individual.

(3)Regulations under this section may, in particular—

(a)provide that overdue amounts are recoverable summarily as a civil debt;

(b)provide that overdue amounts are recoverable as if they were payable under an order of the High Court or [F1the county court], if the court in question so orders on the application of the person to whom the amounts are due.

(4)Regulations under this section may include provision requiring information and documents to be provided.

(5)Schedule 2 (criminal legal aid: motor vehicle orders) has effect.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 24(3)(b) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)