ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1883.
Distraints for Rent.
warrant.
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10. The Judge, Registrar, or Deputy Registrar to whom application is made, may upon examination of the persons applying for such warrants, decline to issue the same.
11. If a Judge declines to issue such warrant, application may be made to the Full Court, as provided in cases under section 18 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873. If the Registrar or Deputy Registrar declines to do so, application may be made to a Judge in the first instance. The Deputy Registrar may, however, always refer the matter to the Registrar upon any application to such Deputy Registrar.
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12. Every distress under this Ordinance shall be made after sunrise and before sunset, and not at any other time except by special leave of the Court or a Judge.
13. In pursuance of the warrant aforesaid, the bailiff shall seize the moveable property found in or upon the house or premises mentioned in the warrant, and in the apparent possession of the person from whom the rent is claimed (hereinafter called the debtor), or such part thereof as may, in the bailiff's judgment, be sufficient to cover the amount of the said rent, together with the costs of the said distress.
14. The bailiff shall not seize:
(a.) Things in actual use, in the hands of a person at the time of seizure;
(b.) Tools and implements not in use, where there is other moveable property in or upon the house or premises sufficient to cover such amount and costs;
(c.) Goods of temporary guests at an inn;
(d.) Goods of lodgers at a furnished lodging house;
(e.) The debtor's necessary wearing apparel;
(f) Goods in the custody of the law;
(g.) Goods delivered to a person exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up, or managed in the way of his trade or employ.
15. On seizing any property under section 13, the bailiff shall make an inventory and appraisement of such property and shall give a copy of such inventory and appraisement, notice in writing according to the form in schedule D, or to the like effect, to the debtor or to any other person upon his behalf, in or upon the said house or premises.
Time for distress.
Property that may be seized.
Property that cannot be seized.
Inventory.
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