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Section 8

An order for payment by instalments not to be a bar to execution

of Debtors Act 1957

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Section 8

Subject to any rules of court, an order for the payment of instalments of a judgment debt under this Part shall not be a bar to proceedings in execution unless and except to the extent that the court shall so direct.

Rules of court may be made as to deposit to be furnished by judgment creditor 9.

Rules of court may be made for the following purposes:

(a)

for requiring the deposit by the person at whose instance any order for arrest or imprisonment is issued, of a sum of money to provide for—

(i)

the expense of bringing the debtor before the court;

and

(ii)

the subsistence of the debtor while in prison; and

(b)

for regulating any matter incidental to such deposit.

Arrest or commitment to be dependent on deposit of expenses