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Form of convictions and orders.
Defendant to be served with minute of order before issue of warrant of commitment or distress.
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17. [1]
In all cases of conviction where no particular form of such conviction is or shall be given by the statute creating the offence or regulating the prosecution for the same, and in all cases of conviction upon statutes hitherto passed, whether any particular form of conviction have been therein given or not, it shall be lawful for the justice or justices who shall so convict to draw up his or their conviction on parchment or on paper in such one of the forms of conviction in the schedule to this Act contained as shall be applicable to such case, or to the like effect; and where an order shall be made and no particular form of order is or shall be given by the statute giving authority to make such order, and in all cases of orders to be made under the authority of any statutes hitherto passed, whether any particular form of order shall therein be given or not, it shall be lawful for the justice or justices by whom such order is to be made to draw up the same in such one of the forms of orders in the schedule to this Act contained as may be applicable to such case, or to the like effect; and in all cases where by any Act of Parliament authority is given to commit a person to prison, or to levy any sum upon his goods or chattels by distress, for not obeying any order of a justice or justices, the defendant shall be served with a copy of the minute of such order before any warrant of commitment or of distress shall issue in that behalf, and such order or minute shall not form any part of such warrant of commitment or of distress.
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