sec.163Commitment in default of execution

### sec.163 Commitment in default of execution In any case in which a warrant of execution may be issued under the provisions hereinbefore contained, if at the time and place appointed for the return of the warrant the officer who has the execution of the same, returns that the officer could find no goods or chattels, or no sufficient goods or chattels, whereon the officer could levy the sum therein mentioned together with the costs of or occasioned by levying the same, the justice before whom the same is returned may order the person against whom such warrant of execution is issued to be imprisoned for a period as prescribed by the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 , unless the sum adjudged to be paid and all costs and charges of the execution, and also, if the justice thinks fit so to order, the costs and charges of taking and conveying such person to prison (the amount thereof being ascertained and stated in the warrant of commitment), are sooner paid. s 163 amd 1949 13 Geo 6 No. 30 s 24; 1985 No. 73 s 12 (1) ; 1988 No. 88 s 3 sch 1 ; 1992 No. 48 s 207 sch ; 2000 No. 63 s 276 sch 2