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Section 58: Money recoverable summarily as civil debt.

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 · 1980 c. 43View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure

A magistrates' court shall have power to make an order on complaint for the payment of any money recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

Any sum payment of which may be ordered by a magistrates' court shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt except—

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a sum that may be adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction or by an order enforceable as if it were a summary conviction.

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