PUBLIC OFFICERS (CONVICTION OF CRIME).
No. 2 of 1882.
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and such person shall become and (until he has suffered the punishment to which he has been sentenced, or such other punishment as by competent authority may be substituted for the same, or receives a free pardon) shall continue thenceforth incapable of holding in this Colony any civil office under the Crown or other public employment or place.
1883.
No. 1 of 1883.
[Originally No. 1 of 1883.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to distraints for rent.
[1st March, 1883.]
No. 8 of 1928. No. 17 of 1929.]
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "The court" means the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.
(b) "The Registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
Interpreta-tion.
PART I.
JURISDICTION.
distress.
3. The court shall have jurisdiction to issue warrants of distress for arrears of rent in all cases, without respect to the value of the property on which the rent is to be levied and without respect to the amount of rent to be levied.
4.-(1) No distress shall be levied for arrears of rent except under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Every person, not being a bailiff or officer acting under the provisions of this Ordinance, who levies distress shall be guilty of an offence.
For landlord's power of distress in bankruptcy see No. 10 of 1931, s. 40.