Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014

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Number 7 of 2014

FINES (PAYMENT AND RECOVERY) ACT 2014

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Orders and regulations

4. Repeals

PART 2

Capacity to Pay Fine, Payment of Fine by Instalments and Failure to Pay Fine

5. Capacity of person to pay fine

6. Option of fined person to pay fine by single payment or instalments

7. Failure to pay fine by due date

PART 3

Recovery Orders

8. Appointment of receiver in default of payment of fine

9. Provisions supplementary to section 8

10. Approval by Government of persons for appointment under section 8(1)

11. Failure to recover fine, etc., by use of receiver

12. Cesser of recovery order

13. Monies recovered by receiver

PART 4

Attachment Orders

14. Attachment order

15. Compliance with attachment order

16. Notification of changes of employment and employment status

17. Cesser of attachment order

18. Monies recovered by attachment order

PART 5

Community Service Orders and Imprisonment in Default of Payment of Fine

19. Community service order in default of payment of fine

20. Imprisonment in default of payment of fine

PART 6

Miscellaneous

21. Service of notices

22. Amendment of Courts (No. 2) Act 1991

23. Data sharing and exchange

24. Application of monies where only part of fine is paid

Acts Referred to

Companies Acts

Court Officers Act 1945 (No. 25)

Courts (No. 2) Act 1986 (No. 26)

Courts (No. 2) Act 1991 (No. 21)

Courts and Court Officers Act 2009 (No. 36)

Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983 (No. 23)

Criminal Justice Act 2006 (No. 26)

Criminal Justice Administration Act 1914 (Geo 4 & 5, c.58)

Electronic Commerce Act 2000 (No. 27)

Employment Agency Act 1971 (No. 27)

Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22)

Fines Act 2010 (No. 8)

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c. 93)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Number 7 of 2014

FINES (PAYMENT AND RECOVERY) ACT 2014

An Act to provide for the payment and recovery of fines imposed on persons convicted of offences; to provide that the court imposing any such fine on such a person shall take into account the person’s financial circumstances; to provide for the making of community service orders in respect of such persons, or the commitment to imprisonment of such persons, in certain circumstances where such fines imposed on them are not paid; to consequentially repeal or amend other enactments; and to provide for related matters. [16 th April, 2014]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: