162DEnforcement of orders made under section 162C

1. The amount that a party is ordered to reimburse under section 162C is a debt due to the Crown by that party and may be enforced in the District Court or the High Court, as the case may require, in the same manner as a judgment of that court.

2. Despite section 219 or 230 of the District Court Act 2016 or section 156 of the Senior Courts Act 2016, no court fee is payable by a person who seeks to enforce, on behalf of the Crown, an order referred to in subsection (1), but the fee that would otherwise be payable—

3. is to be added to the amount sought to be enforced; and
4. must be paid to the Registrar of the court out of any proceeds that result from the enforcement.

5. For the purposes of section 14(1)(b) of the Crown Proceedings Act 1950, the Secretary for Justice may, on behalf of the Crown, enforce a debt under this section.