96 Civil debt: complaint for non-payment
Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (1980 c 43) | Legislation

96  Civil debt: complaint for non-payment

(1)     A magistrates' court shall not commit any person to prison or other detention in default of payment of a sum enforceable as a civil debt or for want of sufficient [goods] to satisfy such a sum except by an

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