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CONFISCATION ACT 1997 - SECT 74

Pecuniary penalty order debt due to Crown

    (1)     An amount payable by a person to the State under a pecuniary penalty order is, for all purposes, to be taken to be a civil debt due by the person to the Crown.

S. 74(2) amended by Nos 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 23.57), 68/2010 s. 23.

    (2)     A pecuniary penalty order made by a court must be taken to be a judgment debt and may be enforced as if it were an order made by it in civil proceedings instituted by the Crown against the accused to recover a debt due by the accused to the Crown.

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