Committal of defendant in certain cases

Wherever an order is made against any person for the payment of a sum of money, and he is liable to be imprisoned for a certain term unless that sum is sooner paid, the court may, if he does not pay the sum either forthwith or at the time specified in the order for its payment, as the case may be, issue a warrant of commitment, under the hand of the magistrate, requiring the police officer to whom the warrant is directed to take and convey the person to prison and there deliver him to the keeper, and requiring the keeper to receive him into the prison and there to imprison him for the time directed and appointed by the warrant of commitment, unless the sum of money adjudged to be paid by the order, and also all other costs, charges and expenses are sooner paid.