EWLF 7

Section 7 · Sale of property

- If no claim is preferred to any property attached, within one month from the date of attachment, by any person other than the offender, the Police Officer executing the warrant shall have power to sell, within the time mentioned in the warrant previous reference to the Court issuing the warrant, the property or such portion thereof, as may be sufficient to satisfy the amount to be levied:Provided that, if the property attached consists of live stock or is subject to speedy and natural decay, or if in the interests of the owner, the Court issuing the warrant orders its immediate sale, the Police Officer may sell it at once, but the proceeds of the sale shall not be appropriated towards the fine until the expiration of one month from the date of the attachment, and until any claim preferred under rule 6 has been disposed of:Provided further that where any property is attached under rule 4, it shall not be sold without obtaining an order to that effect from the Court issuing the warrant; and where two or more persons, of whom one is a co-owner, respectively offer the same sum of such property; it shall be deemed to be the bid of the co-owner.

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