$550

Dispensing

No. 3 of 1890:

MAGISTRATES.

(2) When the whole of the sum has been paid or received by distress, or the term of imprisonment imposed in default of payment or of sufficient distress has expired, the magistrates' clerk shall then enter the sum in the account: Provided that, though the whole of the sum may not have been paid or recovered, the instalments received shall be accounted for at such times and in such manner as the Treasurer may direct.

5. Where a magistrates' clerk renders an account in the required or authorised form to the authority to whom he is required to render it, he shall not be required to render any other account relating to the same particulars.

Entry of receipt.

Quarterly statement of Crown fines. Appendix. Form No. 2.

Application of sum due under forfeited security.

Form of security.

Security book.

Notice to principal of forfeiture of security.

6.-(1) The magistrates' clerk shall enter on the day of its receipt each sum of money received by him on any account whatever.

(2) Each instalment so received shall be entered in a book called the Instalment Ledger, to an account to be opened in respect of the proceeding in which the sum is paid.

7.-(1) The magistrates' clerk shall send, on the 10th day of January, April, July, and October in each year, to the Colonial Secretary a certified statement, in Form No. in the Appendix to these rules, of all fines which have been imposed by the magistrate during the previous three months and which are payable wholly or in part to the Treasurer. (2) If no such fines have been imposed, the statement shall be certified in blank.

8. Where a magistrate has enforced payment of any sum due by a principal in pursuance of a security under the Ordinance which appears to the magistrate to be forfeited, the sum shall be paid to the magistrates' clerk, and shall be paid and applied by him in the manner in which fines imposed by a magistrate in respect of which fines no special appropriation is made are payable and applicable.

9. Any security given under the Ordinance by an oral or written acknowledgment may be in the form of an undertaking.

10.-(1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a security book, and shall enter therein, with respect to each security given in relation to any proceeding, the name and address of each person bound, showing whether he is bound as principal or as surety, the sum in which each person is bound, the undertaking or condition by which he is bound, the date of the security, and the person before whom it is taken.

(2) Where any such security is not entered into before a magistrate or before the magistrates' clerk, the person before whom it is entered into shall make a return of it, showing the above particulars, to the magistrates' clerk.

(3) The security book, and any certified extract therefrom, shall be evidence of the several matters hereby required to be entered in the security book in like manner as if the security book were the register.

11. (1) Not less than two clear days before a warrant of distress is issued for a sum due by a principal in pursuance of a forfeited security under the Ordinance, the magistrates' clerk issuing the warrant shall cause notice of the forfeiture to be served on the principal.

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