Section 36: Application of fees, fines and forfeitures.

(1)
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 officer 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.
[Order 47 of 1951.L.N.131of 1954]
(2)
Nothing in this section shall affect any provision in any Act or 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.
[Order 47 of 1951]
(3)
Except where the requirement, judgment or commission referred to in subsection (1) of this section relates to a function of the Government of the Federation, the expression "appropriate Treasury" shall be interpreted as meaning the Treasury in the State concerned:
Provideed that nothing contained in this section shall affect the rights inter se of the Treasuries of the States of the Federartion.
[L.N. 131of 1954]