C 46

CAP. 227]

Magistrates (Forms) Rules

[1984 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

FORM 55

Warrant of distress for sum due under recognizance adjudged to be forfeited by conviction of principal

[s. 65.]

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.

recognizance entered into on the bound in the sum of that

undersigned (or

(hereinafter called the defendant) was, by his

*

day of

19 the condition of the recognizance being should [state condition of recognizance]; and the said having been convicted of the offence of having [state offence], being an offence which is in law a breach of the said condition, it was. on the

day of

19

adjudged by the Esquire), a magistrate of the said Colony, that the said recognizance should be forfeited, and that the defendant should pay to the magistrates' clerk the said sum of

and should also pay the sum of

for costs; and it was ordered that the said sum should be paid (as in order), 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 for fine].

FORM 56

(s. 64.]

Warrant of distress for sum due by a principal in pursuance of a forfeited security for payment of a sum adjudged by a conviction

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.

of

on the

(hereinafter called the defendant) was, on the

19

4

day convicted before the said court for that he, day of

19

at

, [state offence), and it was adjudged by the said conviction that the defendant should pay [as in the conviction); and it was ordered that the defendant should be at liberty to give, to the satisfaction of a magistrate of the said Colony, [or as in the conviction], security with

surety

for the payment of the said sum at the time and in the manner by the said conviction directed; and the defendant and

and

his sureties (or surety) undertook that the defendant would pay the said sum at the time and in the manner so directed, and [severally] acknowledge themselves (or himself) bound to forfeit and pay to

the sum of

in case the defendant failed to make payment as so directed; and it appears to me that the sum of

due by the defendant in pursuance of the said undertaking has not been paid and has been forfeited: and notice of the said forfeiture has been duly served on the defendant:

Therefore you are hereby commanded [proceed as in warrant of distress on conviction for fine, substituting for the words “being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order” the words “being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due in pursuance of the said undertaking”, and stating the amount at the foot as "amount due in pursuance of the said undertaking"].

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