Section 125
Application of fees, fines and forfeitures
of Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967
Where under any written law any person is required to pay any charge or fee for any act or thing done, or document issued, or signature or seal affixed to any document, by any public officer or department, or where any person is adjudged by any court, or other authority duly authorized by law, to pay or forfeit any sum of money, such charge or fee and such sum of money shall be paid into the
Treasury, unless the contrary is otherwise provided; and if any such charge or fee, or if any commission on money received or taken possession of, realised, or otherwise dealt with, is required to be paid to any public officer or department, such officer or department receiving the same shall pay it into or account for the same in due course to the Treasury.
(2)
Where under any written law any thing or any animal is adjudged by any court, or other authority duly authorized by law, to be forfeited, it shall, unless the contrary is otherwise provided, or unless it is expressed by law to be forfeited to any person, be forfeited to the Government, and the net proceeds thereof, if it is ordered by competent authority to be sold, shall be paid into the
Treasury, unless the contrary is otherwise provided.
(3)
Nothing in this section shall affect any provision in any written law whereby any shares of fines or forfeitures, or of proceeds of forfeitures, are expressed to be recoverable by any person, or may be granted by any authority to any person.
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