60B.— (1) If a financial penalty order relates to a defendant who has property or income, or is normally resident, in a member state, the registrar or clerk of the court concerned shall, on request of the prosecuting authority and subject to any conditions that may be specified by rules of court, give to the Central Authority—

(a) a duly authenticated copy of the order, and

(b) a certificate signed by the registrar or clerk and stating that the prescribed time for lodging an appeal has expired or, as the case may be, will expire on a specified date.

(2) If the financial penalty which is the subject of the financial penalty order has not been paid in whole or in part, the Central Authority may transmit to the competent authority in the member state concerned—

(a) the documents mentioned in subsection (1),

(b) a certificate, and

(c) a request that the financial penalty order be executed in accordance with the 2005 Framework Decision.

(3) Where the Central Authority makes a request under subsection (2) —

(a) if all or part of the financial penalty order has not been executed in the State or in another member state, stating the amount paid and requesting that the amount to be paid in the member state concerned not exceed the difference between the amount specified in the financial penalty order and the amount paid, and

(b) if the defendant has made any voluntary payment in respect of the financial penalty order after it was transmitted, stating the amount of that voluntary payment and requesting that the amount to be paid to the member state concerned not exceed the difference between the amount specified in the financial penalty order and the amount paid voluntarily, and

(c) if the financial penalty order ceases to be enforceable, stating that fact.

(4) If—

(a) an amount is paid to the member state concerned in pursuance of a request under subsection (2), and

(b) the amount paid is less than, or equal to, the amount ordered to be paid under the financial penalty order,

the amount so ordered under the financial penalty order is deemed to be reduced by an amount equal to the amount paid or, as the case may be, the financial penalty order is deemed to be discharged.

(5) In any proceedings a certificate purporting to be issued by a competent authority in a member state and stating—

(a) the amount of any payment made to the member state pursuant to the request, and

(b) the date of that payment,

is admissible, without further proof, as evidence of those matters.

(6) Transmission of documents referred to in subsections (2) and (3) shall be by any means capable of producing a written record under conditions which allow the competent authority concerned to establish the documents’ authenticity.]