Debtors Act · s 7

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s 7Rules of court

Rules of court may be made under the Supreme Court Act (Chapter 5)

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 the expense of bringing the debtor before the court and the subsistence of the debtor while in prison; and

(b)

regulating any matter incidental to such deposit.

Arrest or commitment to be dependent on deposit of expenses.