Execution sale of goods and chattels seized

(1) All goods and chattels taken under any writ of execution shall remain in the custody of the bailiff until sale and delivery to a purchaser. (2) If the property is of a perishable nature, or if not, then with the consent in writing of the party against whom the writ has been issued, the bailiff may sell it at any time before that at which it would otherwise be sold. (3) Property levied on shall be set up for sale by public auction not less than five days and not more than ten days after levy thereon, Provided that, (a) the bailiff may, if he is unable from want of time to complete the sale, adjourn it to some other day, not more than three days distant, and so on as often as may be necessary; and 22 (b) the magistrate may, if he thinks fit, direct that the sale be postponed for any time not exceeding twenty-eight days after the levy. (4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, wherever the property levied on is apparently over five thousand dollars in value, it shall be set up for sale by the bailiff at the magistrate’s court in the district in which the levy is made. (5) The magistrate may, if he thinks fit, in any particular case direct the sale to be held at any other place in the district. (6) Every sale shall take place between the hours of seven o’clock in the morning and three o’clock in the afternoon, and everything set up for sale shall be knocked down to the highest bidder for ready money. (7) Notice of the day and hour of sale of any horses, mules or horned cattle, and of any other goods and chattels, apparently over one hundred and fifty dollars in value levied on, shall be published in a newspaper of Belize four days at least before the day of the sale, and a copy of the notice shall, within that time, be posted on the door of the magistrate’s court of the district in which the levy is made. (8) The bailiff shall act as auctioneer for the purpose of execution sales under this Act, and the provisions of the Auctioneers Act, Cap. 274, shall not apply to him when acting as such.