Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 41

Provision as to mode of payment of sum adjudged to be paid

(1) The magistrate by whose conviction or order any sum is adjudged to be paid
may do all or any of the following things- (See Form 42)

   (a)  allow time for the payment of the sum;

   (b)  direct payment to be made of the sum by instalments; and

   (c)  direct that the person liable to pay the sum shall be at liberty to
        give, to the satisfaction of a magistrate or such person as may be
        specified by the magistrate adjudging the money to be paid, security,
        with or without a surety or sureties, for the payment of the sum or of
        any instalment thereof, and such security may be given and enforced in
        manner provided by this Ordinance.

(2) Where a sum is directed to be paid by instalments and default is made in
the payment of any one instalment, the same proceedings may be taken as if
default had been made in payment of all the instalments then remaining unpaid.

(3) A magistrate directing the payment of a sum or of an instalment of a sum
may direct such payment to be made at such time and in such place and to such
person as may be specified by the magistrate, and every person, not being the
magistrates' clerk, to whom any such sum or instalment is paid shall as soon
as may be account for and pay over the same to such clerk. (See Forms 21-23,
25-27, 30-34, 38) [cf. 1879 c. 49 s. 7 U.K.]