sec.163AWhen court may order imprisonment in default of execution

### sec.163A When court may order imprisonment in default of execution In all cases where the decision adjudges or requires the payment of a penalty or compensation or sum of money or costs, and the same is, in pursuance of this Act, recoverable by execution against the goods and chattels of the person liable to make such payment, the adjudicating justices may, as part of such decision, further order that in default of sufficient distress to satisfy the sum adjudged to be paid and the costs and charges of execution, the person liable to make such payment shall 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 justices think fit so to order, the costs and charges of taking and conveying the said person to prison (the amount thereof being ascertained and stated in the said decision), are sooner paid. s 163A ins 1909 9 Edw 7 No. 11 s 3 amd 1949 13 Geo 6 No. 30 s 25; 1985 No. 73 s 12 (1) ; 1988 No. 88 s 3 sch 1 ; 1992 No. 48 s 207 sch