ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954

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ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 20

Application of fines.

20.(1) Save as is otherwise provided under this section, all fines within the
meaning of this section which are imposed or levied by any court after the
appointed day shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the
[Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom] in such manner as the Ministry of
Finance may direct and, notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, no part
of any such fine shall be paid or allowed to any prosecutor, informer or other
person or paid into any fund.

Subs.(2) spent

(3) Where after the appointed day any fine is remitted in whole or in part
after it has been paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the
[Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom], the fine or the portion thereof so
remitted (as the case may be) may be repaid out of the [Consolidated Fund of
the United Kingdom].

(4) For any reference to the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, in any enactment
directing fines to be applied in the manner directed by that Act there shall
be substituted a reference to this section.

(5) In this section

"fine" includes every fine, amerciament, penalty and forfeited recognizance
other than

(i)a fine imposed for an offence [to which section 203 of the Fisheries Act
(Northern Ireland) 1966 applies], or under the Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern
Ireland), 1952;

(ii)a fine which under the provisions of any enactment for the time being in
force relating to any matter with respect to which the Parliament of Northern
Ireland has not power to make laws is required to be paid into the ...
[Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom] or to any fund or person;

<(iii)any fine, penalty or other sum payable under the provisions of any enactment relating to duties or taxes under the control of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;


<(iv)any sum recoverable at the suit of a common informer;


(v)any sums which pursuant to any enactment are directed to be paid to or for
the benefit of an aggrieved or injured party or a party described in similar
terms or to or for the benefit of the family or relatives of any such party or
of a person dying in consequence of an act or event which constituted or was
the occasion of the offence;

<(vi)any sums which pursuant to any enactment are directed to be applied in making good any default or in repairing any damage or paying or reimbursing any expenses (including costs); or


<(vii)any sums which are directed to be paid to any person pursuant to any enactment referring in terms to awarding or reimbursing a loss or to damages, compensation or satisfaction for loss, damage, injury or wrong.


(6) Any enactment contained in a local Act which is inconsistent with the
provisions of this section shall cease to have effect.

S.21 rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

S.27, with Schedule 6, effects amendments.

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ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 20