Part V Enforcement of Judgments and Orders

Seizure and custody of goods etc.

92 Penalty for rescuing goods seized.

(1)

If any person rescues or attempts to rescue any goods seized in execution under process of a county court, he shall be liable—

(a)

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or both; or

(b)

on an order made by the judge in that behalf, to be committed for a specified period not exceeding one month to . . . F1 prison . . . F1or to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to be so committed and to such a fine.

and a bailiff of the court may take the offender into custody, with or without warrant, and bring him before the judge.

(2)

The judge may at any time revoke an order committing a person to prison under this section and, if he is already in custody, order his discharge.