44Order for possession

44 Order for possession

44 Order for possession

(cf Act No 48, 1930, s 21A)

(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence in consequence of which a mortgagor has been deprived of the possession of property, the subject of a mortgage, or the purchaser or lessee of goods under a hire-purchase agreement has been deprived of the goods the subject of the agreement, the court may, in a summary manner, make such order as to costs and the possession of the property or of the goods as to it seems fit.

(2) A copy of such order may be served on the person in possession of the property or of the goods, and, if such person makes default in complying with such order, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars per day for each day he makes default in complying with the order.

Such penalty and costs may be recovered in a summary way under the provisions of the Justices Act 1902.