(1) When an offender becomes liable to pay the offender levy under
section 179C, the proper officer of the court must give the same particulars
in relation to the levy to the SPER registrar for registration that it would
give if—
(a) the court made an order fining the offender the amount of the
levy for the offence; and
(b) the proper officer were the registrar of the
court; and
Note—
The SPE Act uses the term ‘registrar of the court’.
(2) The SPER registrar must register the particulars.
(3) For the
purposes of registration, and on registration, the SPE Act , other than the
excluded provisions, applies, with all necessary and convenient changes, to
the levy and to the offender in the same way as it applies—
(a) to the
unpaid amount of a fine, for an offence, imposed by a court on a person the
particulars of which are registered; and
(b) to that person.
(4) The
requirement under subsection (1) (c) to give prescribed particulars is subject
to a regulation made under the SPE Act for offender levies.
(5) The proper
officer may give amended particulars to SPER for registration if amendment of
the particulars is necessary because of error.
(6) This section does not
apply if all of the amount of the levy is paid under section 179E(3) before
the particulars have been given under subsection (1) .
(7) In this section—
"excluded provisions" means the following provisions of the SPE Act —
(a)
provisions of that Act relating to infringement notices;
(b) section 52to
the extent it applies to an arrest and imprisonment warrant, and the other
provisions of that Act relating to arrest and imprisonment warrants;
