The Act Schedule 17:  Offences relating to nuclear material and nuclear facilities Part 6: International co-operation in relation to criminal matters Section 84: Requests from other member States: England and Wales
554.This section is concerned with financial penalties received for enforcement in England and Wales from other Member States. This applies where the Lord Chancellor receives a certificate requesting enforcement of a financial penalty under the Council Framework Decision, together with a copy of the original decision imposing the financial penalty, and the penalty is suitable for enforcement in England and Wales.
555.If the certificate states that the offender is normally resident in England and Wales, subsection (2) requires that the Lord Chancellor gives the documents specified in subsection (1)(a) to the designated officer for the local justice area where it appears the offender is resident. Otherwise, where the certificate states that the offender has property or income in England and Wales, subsection (3) requires that the Lord Chancellor gives the documents to the designated officer for such local justice area as appears appropriate. The Lord Chancellor is also required to indicate in an accompanying notice whether any of the grounds for refusing to enforce the financial penalty (as set out in Part 1 to Schedule 19) may apply in the particular case, together with the reasons for that opinion.
556.Subsection (5) provides that subsection (2) applies to corporate bodies as if the reference to the local justice area in which the offender is resident were to the area in which the corporate body has its registered office.
557.Subsection (6) provides that this section applies to financial penalties which have been sent by another Member State to the central authority for Scotland and then forwarded to the Lord Chancellor to act on.