Preliminary

7 Orders for payment of wages made by justices to have priority.

When orders for the payment of wages due in respect of work done at any mine have been made by any of Her Majesty’s justices of the peace, and the several amounts payable thereunder have not been discharged within the time allowed by law for that purpose, a distress may be levied on and sale made of any such mining effects, in or on such mine, as are by law liable to be distrained for rent.