C 42

CAP. 227

[Subsidiary]

Magistrates (Forms) Rules

(1984 Ed.)

and pay *[amount of fine], and should also pay to the said the sum of

for compensation and

for costs and it was ordered that the said sums should be paid [etc., as in the conviction); and that if default should be made in payment according to the said adjudication and order, the sum due thereunder should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods. and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order:

Therefore you are hereby commanded forthwith to make distress of the goods of the defendant (except the wearing apparel and bedding of him and his family, and, to the value of twenty-five dollars, the tools and implements of his trade); and if, within the space of

days next after the making of such distress, the sum of

being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order, together with the reasonable costs and charges of the making and keeping of the said distress be not paid, then to sell the said goods by you distrained, and pay the money arising therefrom to the magistrates' clerk, in order that it may be applied according to law, and that the overplus, if any, may be rendered on demand to the defendant; and if no such distress can be found, to certify the same to the said court, in order that further proceedings may be had according to law.

Dated this

[L.S.]

Amount adjudged

Paid

Remaining due

Costs of issuing warrant

Total amount to be levied

day of

S

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Magistrate.

$

* Omit direction as to payment of fine, or compensation, or costs, as the case may require.

+ NB-The goods are not to be sold until after the end of five clear days next following the day on which they are seized. unless the defendant consents or unless the goods are perishable.

FORM 49

Warrant of distress on an order for the payment of any sum of money

HONG KONG.

IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT

[s. 51.]

To [insert name, etc., of officer where the person executing is not a police officer] and to each and all of the police officers of the said Colony,

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On the

day of

by the undersigned (or

Colony, that

should pay to

the sum of

of

before the

day of

it was adjudged and ordered Esquire), a magistrate of the said (hereinafter called the defendant) and the sum for costs [or as the case may be), on or 19. [or as ordered); and

that, if default should be made in payment according to the said adjudication and order, the sum due thereunder should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods; and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order:

Therefore you are hereby commanded [proceed as in warrant of distress on conviction for fine].

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