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No. 18 of 2009

Fines Bill 2009

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Fines Bill 2009 would update outdated maximum fines, placing District Court fines into five classes ranging from €500 to €5,000, and increase certain higher-court fines. Courts would have to consider a person’s financial circumstances, allow instalment payments where paying at once would cause hardship, and use alternatives to imprisonment—such as recovery from assets or community service—when fines are not paid. It would retain imprisonment as a possible last resort, including up to 12 months for non-payment of some higher-court fines.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to the maximum fines that a court may impose in respect of offences tried summarily and certain offences tried on indictment; to provide that a court in imposing a fine upon conviction of a person of an offence shall take account of a person's financial circumstances; to provide for the payment of such fines by instalment in certain circumstances; to make provision in relation to the powers of the court where there has been a failure on the part of a convicted person to pay a fine; for those purposes to amend the Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983 and the Courts (No. 2) Act 1986; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Last updated 13 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Fines Bill 2009: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Fines Bill 2009: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Fines Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Fines Bill 2009: Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Fines Bill 2009: Order for Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages.
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Order for Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Fines Bill 2009: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil

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