'Reparations to victims - national procedures for ICC proceedings' in document 'Malta: ICC Act 2003'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART 4
ENFORCEMENT OF SENTENCES AND ORDERS
12. The Minister may make regulations to provide for the enforcement in Malta of -
(a) fines or forfeitures ordered by the ICC, and
(b) orders by the ICC against convicted persons specifying reparations to, or in respect of victims, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of that power may make regulations which -
(i) authorise the Minister to appoint a person to act on behalf of the ICC for the purposes of enforcing the order and to give that person such directions as appear necessary to the Minister;
(ii) require the registration in the Public Registry of any order to which this article applies and providing for the effects of such registration;
(iii) apply all or any of the provisions relating to the enforcement in Malta of orders of a court of a country or territory outside Malta;
(iv) provide that the reasonable costs for and incidental to the registration and enforcement of an order are recoverable as if they were sums
recoverable under the order;
(v) provide for the recovery of fines as a civil debt or for the conversion into imprisonment or detention of any such fines in default of payment:
Provided that different provision may be made for different kinds of order.