PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 73 Payments and application of payments

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 73

73 Payments and application of payments

(1) Subject to subsection (3) and despite a suspension of an original order so far as it requires the payment of a fine, the fine or a part of the fine may be paid.

(2) A fine or part of a fine must be paid, directly or indirectly, to the proper officer of the court in which the original order was made.

(3) If, after a fine option order is made—

(a) payment of part of the amount originally required to be paid by the original order is made—the payment must be applied—

(i) firstly, to the amount of a penalty (other than the fine) required to be paid by the original order; and

(ii) then, to the amount of the fine; or

(b) a payment is applied to the amount of the fine to which the fine option order relates—the number of hours of community service required to be performed by an offender under a requirement of the order must be reduced by a number that bears to the number of hours, as nearly as possible, the same proportion that the amount of the payment bears to the amount of the fine.