Section 29Part 2 — Punishments
Enforcement by distress warrant of fines, etc.
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29. (1) Where default is made in payment of a fine or other sum imposed or adjudged to be paid under any law on a conviction or order of any court, the court may issue a warrant for the levy of such fine or other sum on the immovable and movable property of the offender by distress and sale.
Where a court has power to issue a warrant under subsection (1) it may, if it thinks it expedient to do so, postpone the issue of the warrant until such time and on such conditions, if any, as it thinks just.
A warrant shall not, if it states that the sum has been so adjudged to be paid, be held void by reason of any defect in the warrant. Penal Code (2026 Revision) Section 30 c Revised as at 31st December, 2025 Page 27
A person acting under a warrant shall not be deemed to be a trespasser from the beginning by reason only of an irregularity in the execution of the warrant.
Nothing in this section shall prejudice the claim of any person for special damages in respect of any loss caused by a defect in the warrant or any irregularity in its execution.
A person who removes any property marked as an article impounded in the execution of a warrant, or defaces or removes any such mark commits an offence and is liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.
A person who, being charged with the execution of a warrant, wilfully retains from the proceeds of a sale of the goods on which distress is levied, or otherwise exacts, any greater costs and charges than those properly payable, or makes any improper charge, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.