Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 53

Commitment in default of sufficient distress

If at the time and place appointed for the return of any such warrant of
distress the police officer or other officer who has had the execution of the
same returns that he could find no goods or chattels or no sufficient goods or
chattels whereon he could levy the sum or sums therein mentioned, together
with the costs of or occasioned by the levying of the same, it shall be lawful
for the magistrate before whom the same is returned to issue his warrant of
commitment under his hand and seal, directed to the same or any other police
officer or other officer, reciting the conviction or order shortly, the
issuing of the warrant of distress, and the return thereto, and requiring such
police officer or other officer to convey the defendant to prison, and there
to deliver him to the Commissioner of Correctional Services, and requiring the
said Commissioner to receive the defendant and to imprison him in such manner
and for such time as the enactment on which the conviction or order mentioned
in the warrant of distress is founded directs, unless the sum or sums adjudged
to be paid, and all costs and charges of the distress (the amount thereof
being ascertained and stated in the commitment) shall be sooner paid. (See
Forms 57, 63) [cf. 1848 c. 43 s. 21 U.K.]