### Magistrates Ordinance 《裁判官條例》

44. Rule as to cumulative sentences for assault
A special magistrate shall not, by cumulative sentences of imprisonment (other than for default of finding sureties) to take effect in succession in respect of several assaults committed on the same occasion, impose on any person imprisonment for the whole exceeding 6 months; but nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions contained in section 94.
(Amended 24 of 1949 s. 14 )[cf. 1879 c. 49 s. 18 U.K.]

47. Order for delivery of goods stolen or fraudulently obtained and in possession of dealer in second-hand property
(1) If any goods are stolen or unlawfully obtained from any person, or, having been lawfully obtained, are unlawfully deposited, pledged, sold or exchanged, and complaint is made thereof to a magistrate, and that such goods are in the possession of any broker, dealer in marine stores or other dealer in second-hand property, or of any person who has lent money upon the credit of such goods, it shall be lawful for the magistrate to issue a summons or warrant for the appearance of such broker, dealer or lender and for the production of such goods to be delivered up to the owner thereof, either without payment or on payment of such sum and at such time as the magistrate may think fit.
(2) Every broker, dealer or lender who, having been so ordered, refuses or neglects to deliver up the goods, or who disposes of or makes away with the same after notice that such goods were stolen or unlawfully obtained as aforesaid, shall forfeit to the owner of the goods the full value thereof:
Provided that no such order shall bar any such broker, dealer or lender from recovering possession of such goods by action from the person into whose possession they may come by virtue of the magistrate’s order, provided that such action is commenced within 6 months next after such order has been made.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect pawnbrokers.

48. Restoration of property unlawfully pledged, etc.
(1) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order that any goods brought before him which have been unlawfully pledged or exchanged, and the ownership of which is established to his satisfaction, shall be delivered up to the owner by the person with whom they were so unlawfully pledged or exchanged, either without compensation or with such compensation to that person as he may think fit.
(2) Nothing in this section shall affect pawnbrokers.

### Magistrates Ordinance 《裁判官條例》

50. Penalty on common informer for compounding without permission of magistrate
In case any person lays any information before a magistrate for any offence alleged to have been committed, by which he was not personally aggrieved, and afterwards directly or indirectly receives, without the permission of a magistrate, any sum of money or reward for compounding, delaying or withdrawing the information, it shall be lawful for a magistrate to issue his warrant or summons, as he may deem best, for bringing before him the person charged with such compounding, delay or withdrawal; and if such offence is proved by the confession of the said informer or by the oath of any credible witness, he shall be liable to a penalty of $500.
(Amended 24 of 1949 s. 17)

51. Warrant of distress
Where a conviction adjudges a fine to be paid or where an order requires the payment of a sum of money and by the enactment authorizing such conviction or order such fine or sum of money is to be levied on the goods and chattels of the defendant by distress and sale thereof, and also in cases where by the enactment in that behalf no mode of raising or levying such fine or sum of money or of enforcing the payment of the same is stated or provided, it shall be lawful for a magistrate to issue his warrant of distress for the purpose of levying the same, which shall be in writing under his hand and seal: (See Forms 21, 30, 48, 49)

52. Allowing defendant to go at large until return made to warrant, etc.
Where a magistrate issues any such warrant of distress it shall be lawful for him to suffer the defendant to go at large, or, by a written warrant in that behalf or verbally, to order the defendant to be kept and detained in safe custody until return is made to the warrant, unless the defendant gives sufficient security, by recognizance or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, for his appearance before a magistrate at the time and place appointed for the return of the warrant: (See Forms 64, 65)

### Magistrates Ordinance 《裁判官條例》

53. Commitment in default of sufficient distress
If at the time and place appointed for the return of any such warrant of distress the police officer or other officer who has had the execution of the same returns that he could find no goods or chattels or no sufficient goods or chattels whereon he could levy the sum or sums therein mentioned, together with the costs of or occasioned by the levying of the same, it shall be lawful for the magistrate before whom the same is returned to issue his warrant of commitment under his hand and seal, directed to the same or any other police officer or other officer, reciting the conviction or order shortly, the issuing of the warrant of distress, and the return thereto, and requiring such police officer or other officer to convey the defendant to prison, and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Correctional Services, and requiring the said Commissioner to receive the defendant and to imprison him in such manner and for such time as the enactment on which the conviction or order mentioned in the warrant of distress is founded directs, unless the sum or sums adjudged to be paid, and all costs and charges of the distress (the amount thereof being ascertained and stated in the commitment) shall be sooner paid. (See Forms 57, 63)

54. Commitment of defendant where no remedy or punishment in default of sufficient distress
Whenever it is returned to a warrant of distress issued for the recovery of a fine or sum of money ordered to be paid under a conviction or order that no sufficient goods of the party against whom such warrant has been issued can be found, and by the enactment under the provisions of which such conviction or order was made no further remedy or punishment is provided for the non-payment of such fine or sum of money, it shall nevertheless be lawful for a magistrate, if he thinks fit, by his warrant as aforesaid, to commit the defendant to prison for such period as may be in accordance with the scale provided by section 68, unless the fine or sum adjudged to be paid, and all costs and charges of the distress (the amount thereof being ascertained and stated in the commitment), shall be sooner paid. (See Form 63)