Claim by landlord before magistrate for rent due and issue of distress warrant

(1) If, when any rent not exceeding the sum of fourteen thousand four hundred dollars per annum becomes due the tenant remains in default of payment thereof for seven days after it has become due, the landlord or his agent may lay his claim, with the particulars thereof in writing properly substantiated and sworn before a magistrate or a clerk of the court, who is hereby authorised to administer the oath in connection therewith. (2) The magistrate shall thereupon issue a warrant authorising any police officer or bailiff in the daytime to enter, and if necessary to break open, the tenement in respect of which the rent is due between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, and, in the presence of the landlord or his agent and under his direction, to distrain the goods and chattels therein sufficient to satisfy the amount due, subject, however, to any privilege from distress at common law or under this Act. (3) The police officer or bailiff, in the presence and at the desire or under the direction of the landlord or his agent, if sufficient property is not found on the tenement, may distrain any of the goods and chattels of the tenant fraudulently or clandestinely carried off the tenement to prevent the landlord from distraining the same for rent in arrear, wherever they are found within the space of thirty days next ensuing such carrying off, unless they have been sold for a valuable consideration before such distraint to any person not privy to such fraud. (4) The person executing the warrant of distress shall make out and leave with the tenant an inventory of the goods 25