Section 13: Condition for performance subject to payment and recovery fines and fees.

(1) Where a sum of money is payable in respect of the performance of a duty imposed by an enactment on any person, that person may abstain from performing the duty until the sum is paid or, where the sum cannot be finally ascertained before the performance of the duty, until such an amount is paid as that person may reasonably estimate (without prejudice to its subsequent adjustment) to be the relevant sum.
(2) Where under any Act or 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 authorised by law, to pay or forfeit any sum of money, such charge or fee and such sum of money shall be paid into the appropriate 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 office or department, such officer or department receiving the same shall pay it into or account for the same in due course to the appropriate Treasury.
(3) Where in any Act or Law power is given to any authority to impose any fine or make any order or give any directions whatever and it is stated that such fine, order or direction shall be imposed, be recoverable or in any manner have effect as if the same were a fine, order or direction, imposed, made or given by a court or by a judicial or other officer, any such court or judicial or other officer having jurisdiction in the place where such fine, order or direction was imposed, made or given, or where the person who was ordered to pay the fine or who is required to obey the order or direction resides or may happen to be, may take the necessary steps to enforce the payment of the fine or the carrying out of the order or direction, as the case may be, in all respects as if the fine, order or direction had in fact been imposed, made or given by such court or judicial or other officer.