Courts (No. 2) Act, 1986

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Imprisonment on summary conviction in default of payment of fine.

2.—(1) Where on summary conviction a fine is imposed a court may order that, in default of due payment of the fine, the person liable to pay the fine shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding the appropriate period specified in the following scale:

(2) Where on summary conviction a fine is imposed on a body corporate, the fine may, in default of due payment, be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the body corporate.

(3) This section does not apply to any case relating to a tax or duty which is under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners or to any fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred in connection with such a tax or duty or otherwise incurred under the Customs Acts, other than an excise penalty under the Roads Act, 1920 (as amended), imposed on foot of a complaint made by a member of the Garda Síochána.

(4) In this section—

“fine” includes any compensation, costs or expenses in addition to a fine ordered to be paid;

“summary conviction” includes a conviction imposed on foot of a trial of a summary offence and of a trial of an indictable offence tried summarily.