Fines Act 2010
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Publication of list of names of persons who fail to pay fines on time. |
21.— (1) The Courts Service may, from time to time, publish in such manner as it considers appropriate (including on the internet) a list of the names and addresses of persons who have failed to pay fines imposed on them by the due date for payment. | |
(2) In any particular case— | ||
(a) the Courts Service shall not publish a person’s name and address pursuant to this section before the notification of the receiver under subsection (2) of section 16 of the person’s failure to pay the fine by the due date for payment, and | ||
(b) the Courts Service shall not publish a person’s name and address in accordance with this section if, after the due date for payment but before the person’s name and address are so published, the person pays the fine concerned. | ||
(3) The Courts Service shall remove the name and address of a person published in a list referred to in subsection (1) on the internet— | ||
(a) not later than 8 weeks after they were so published, or | ||
(b) if the person pays the fine concerned before the expiration of that period, upon the payment by the person of the fine, | ||
whichever occurs earlier. | ||
(4) In this section “due date for payment” means, in relation to a fine— | ||
(a) the date specified by the court that imposed the fine as being the date by which the fine is required to be paid, or | ||
(b) where a direction is given under section 15 , the date by which the final instalment of the fine is required to be paid in accordance with that direction. |