Orders may be enforced by commitment
98 Orders may be enforced by commitment
For the purpose of enforcing compliance with any judgment or order of a Warden’s Court directing not the payment of money but the doing or refraining from the doing of any act, the following provisions shall apply:
If any person makes any default in complying with any such judgment or order, or in any way impedes or prevents the compliance therewith, he commits an offence, and is liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds and to be imprisoned in default of payment, or to be imprisoned without the infliction of any such penalty; and the court may issue a warrant of commitment accordingly;
The person named in such warrant shall be taken to some convenient prison named therein and delivered to the keeper of such prison, who shall there detain him until he pays such penalty (if any) and gives security to the satisfaction of the court that he will refrain from repeating such offence, or until he is released by order of the court:
Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this section for any term exceeding six months.
[Section 98 amended: No. 66 of 1954 s. 30.]
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