26 Payment of fines and other sums

26  Payment of fines and other sums

(1)     In the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 after section 75 insert—

“75A Costs of collecting sums adjudged to be paid by a conviction

(1)     Where a sum is adjudged to be paid by a conviction, the person liable to pay the sum is also liable to pay amounts in respect of costs of doing things for the purpose of collecting sums of that kind.

(2)     Where the person is charged such an amount, the sum adjudged to be paid is treated as increased by that amount.

(3)     No such amount may be charged unless a collection order or other notice of the person's liability to pay such amounts has been served on the person.

(4)     Where time has been allowed for payment of the sum, no such amount may be charged before the end of that time.

(5)     Where payment is to be by instalments, no such amount may be charged—

(a)     before the first occasion on which there is default in the payment of an instalment, or

(b)     at any other time when the instalments are up to date.

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