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FINES REFORM ACT 2014 (NO. 47 OF 2014) - SECT 106

Issue of enforcement warrant

    (1)     The Director may apply to a registrar for an enforcement warrant to be issued against a fine defaulter.

    (2)     A registrar may issue an enforcement warrant on the application of the Director if satisfied that—

        (a)     a notice of final demand was served on the fine defaulter and the fine defaulter failed to comply with that notice by—

              (i)     defaulting in the payment of a registered fine specified in the notice; or

              (ii)     failing to take any other action specified in the notice within the time specified in the notice; or

        (b)     a payment arrangement was made with the fine defaulter and the fine defaulter defaulted in the payment of that payment arrangement; or

        (c)     the fine defaulter failed to report as required under section 152(b) to the community corrections centre specified in a community work permit imposed on the fine defaulter; or

        (d)     the fine defaulter is the subject of any other unsatisfied enforcement warrant that is in force.

    (3)     An enforcement warrant issued under subsection (2)(c)—

        (a)     is not subject to section 119; and

        (b)     must not be endorsed or direct or authorise that the fine defaulter be dealt with in accordance with Part 13.

    (4)     If a registrar issues an enforcement warrant against a fine defaulter who is a natural person, the registrar may endorse the warrant with a direction that the person arrested must be released on bail as specified in the endorsement.

    (5)     An endorsement under subsection (4) must fix—

        (a)     the amounts in which the principal and the sureties, if any, are to be bound; and

        (b)     the amount of any money or the value of any security to be deposited.



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