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The Fines Bill 2009 would update outdated maximum fines, placing District Court fines into five classes ranging from €500 to €5,000, and increase certain higher-court fines.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
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- 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