New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 108

108 Enforcement of New South Wales fine by reciprocating court

(1) Where another State has laws providing for enforcement in that State of a New South Wales fine against a body corporate, the Commissioner may (on the Commissioner's own behalf or on behalf of the registrar of a New South Wales court) send a request in writing to the relevant officer of the reciprocating court for the enforcement of the New South Wales fine.

(2) Any amount received from a reciprocating court by the Commissioner or the registrar of a court in satisfaction of the whole or part of a New South Wales fine is to be applied as if the amount had been paid to the Commissioner or registrar by the body corporate by which the fine was payable in satisfaction of the whole or part of the fine.

(3) If--

(a) a request has been made under subsection (1), and

(b) an amount is received by the Commissioner (otherwise than from the relevant officer of the reciprocating court to whom the request was made) in satisfaction of the whole or part of the fine,

the Commissioner is required, as soon as practicable, to notify that relevant officer of the amount of the payment.