Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Part 3 applies to the payment of:
(a) ancillary money orders; and
(b) debts or other amounts payable to the Territory (where the Fines Recovery Unit is acting for the Territory);
in the same way as it applies to the payment of fines.
(2) Unless a court orders otherwise, an ancillary money order is payable to the Fines Recovery Unit and the Unit may pay out to the appropriate person or body money received under the order.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), money received by the Fines Recovery Unit in a matter is to be allocated firstly to payment of an ancillary money order (and if more than one ancillary money order – rateably between those orders) and then to payment of any fine or penalty.
(4) If the Fines Recovery Unit makes an enforcement order in a matter, any amount remaining unpaid under an ancillary money order may be enforced in accordance with section 107.
(5) The Fines Recovery Unit:
(a) may act for the Territory to enforce payment of an ancillary money order made in favour of the Territory; and
(b) cannot act to enforce payment of an ancillary money order in any other case.