214 Fines: time for payment and payment by instalments
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

214  Fines: time for payment and payment by instalments

(1)     Where a court has imposed a fine on an offender or ordered him to find caution the court shall, subject to subsection (2) below, allow him at least seven days to pay the fine or the first instalment thereof or, as the case may be, to find caution; and any reference in this section and section 216 of this Act to a failure to pay a fine or other like expression shall include a reference to a failure to find caution.

(2)     If on the occasion of the imposition of a fine—

(a)     the offender appears to the court to possess sufficient means to enable him to pay the fine forthwith; or

(b)     on being asked by the court whether he wishes to have time for payment, he

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