136Application of penalties recovered

1. Subject to any order made under subsection (2), every penalty recovered in any penalty action, whether before the Authority or the court, must be paid into the Authority or the court, as the case requires, and not to the plaintiff, and must then be paid by the Authority or the court into a Crown Bank Account.

2. The Authority or the court may order that the whole or any part of any penalty recovered must be paid to any person.

Compare

• 1991 No 22 s 54

Notes

• Section 136(1): amended, on 25 January 2005, pursuant to section 65R(3) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).