71 Registration of sums payable in default
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (1988 c 53) | Legislation

71  Registration of sums payable in default

[(1)     Where, in England and Wales, [the designated officer for a local justice area] receives a registration certificate issued under section 70 of this Act in respect of any sum payable in default—

(a)     if it appears to him that the defaulter resides in a [local justice area for which he is the designated officer], he must register that sum for enforcement as a fine in that area by entering it in the register of a magistrates' court [acting in] that area, [or]

(b)     if it appears to him that the defaulter resides in any [other local justice] area in England and Wales, he must send the certificate to the [designated officer for] that area, or

(c)     if it appears to him that the defaulter resides in Scotland, he must send the certificate to the clerk of the court of summary jurisdiction for the area in which the defaulter appears to him to reside [or

(d)     if it appears to him that the defaulter does not reside in England, Wales or Scotland—

(i)     in a case where the offence to which the fixed penalty notice or conditional offer relates was committed in the local justice

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