1984 Ed.]
Magistrates (Forms) Rules
[CAP. 227
C 43
[Subsidiary]
FORM 50
[s. 56.]
HONG KONG.
Warrant of distress for costs on a conviction where the offence is punishable by imprisonment
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
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,
of
for his for costs
[labourer], (hereinafter called the defendant) was, on the
day of
19 convicted before the said court for that [state the offence as in the conviction], and it was adjudged that the defendant for his said offence should be imprisoned in a prison in the said Colony for the space of
; and it was also adjudged that the defendant should pay to the said
the sum of costs in that behalf; and it was ordered that if the said sum of should not be paid [forthwith], the same should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods and chattels, and it was adjudged that, in default of sufficient distress in that behalf, the defendant should be imprisoned in a prison for the space of
to commence at and from the termination of his imprisonment aforesaid, unless the said sum for costs, and all costs and charges of the said distress, should be sooner paid; but the defendant having made default in the payment of the said sum of
for costs:
These are, therefore, to command you, in Her Majesty's name, that you forthwith make distress of the defendant's goods and chattels, and if, within the space of
days next after the making of such distress, the said last-mentioned sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress, shall not be paid, that then you sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained, and pay the money arising from such sale to the magistrates' clerk that he may pay the same as by law directed, and may render the overplus, if any, on demand, to the defendant, and, if no such distress can be found, that then you certify the same to the said court, in order that further proceedings may be had according to law.
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
FORM 51
19
Magistrate.
(s. 56.]
Warrant of distress for costs on an order where the disobeying of the order is punishable with imprisonment
HONG KONG.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
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.
On the undersigned (or
day of
[etc., as in the order) and on the
*
19
complaint was made before the Esquire), a magistrate of the said Colony, for that
day of
19
.al
, the said parties having appeared before me (or the said Esquire, or as it may be in the order) upon consideration of the matter of the said complaint, it was adjudged that the defendant should [etc., as in the order]; and that if, upon a copy of the minute of that order being served on the defendant either personally or by leaving the same for him at his last or most usual place of abode, he should refuse or neglect to obey the same, the defendant for such his disobedience should be imprisoned in a prison in the said Colony for the space of unless the said order should be sooner the sum
of
obeyed; and also that the defendant should pay to the said
for his costs in that behalf; and it was ordered that if the said sum for costs should not be paid [forthwith], the same should be levied by