4Debts due by recognizance recovered by judgment

4 Debts due by recognizance recovered by judgment

(1)  *[Section 4 Subsection (1) amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*When any person shall have entered into any recognizance to His Majesty which is not hereinafter exempted from the operation of this Act, and such recognizance shall be forfeited, it shall be lawful for the judge of the Court before which, or the justice before whom, the same shall be forfeited, to cause such recognizance to be estreated.

(2)  Every such estreat shall be effected as follows, that is to say – Such judge or justice shall, by writing under his hand, in the form contained in Schedule 3 , certify that such forfeiture has taken place, and shall deliver or send by post the said recognizance and writing to the Attorney-General.

(3)  *[Section 4 Subsection (3) amended by No. 55 of 1965, s. 5 ]*Upon receipt of the said recognizance and writing, the Attorney-General shall cause a final judgment to be signed in the Supreme Court for the amount of such recognizance and $10 for costs.

(4)  Every such judgment may be in the form contained in Schedule 4 ; and no writ of error or appeal shall lie or be had therefrom.