P-15 - Summary Convictions Act

Section 59 Disposition versions

1983-01-01

59. The collector may come to an agreement with the defendant and grant him, on request, an extension of time, if an examination of his financial situation leads him to believe that the defendant can afford to pay the fine but that an extension of time is justified under the circumstances. The collector may also come to an agreement with the defendant to receive deferred payments of such amounts, at such intervals and for such time as they agree in writing.

R. S. 1964, c. 35, s. 56; 1969, c. 21, s. 35; 1982, c. 32, s. 9.

1977-12-31

59. Whenever it appears to any justice of the peace that the issuing of a distress warrant would be ruinous to the defendant and his family, or whenever it appears to the justice of the peace, by the confession of the defendant or otherwise, that he has no goods and chattels whereon to levy such distress, then the justice of the peace, if he deems fit, instead of issuing a warrant of distress, may commit the defendant to the house of detention of the district, there to be imprisoned, for the time and in the manner he would have been committed in case such warrant of distress had issued and no sufficient distress had been found.

R. S. 1964, c. 35, s. 56; 1969, c. 21, s. 35.