2 paras. Section 40[2] includes a number of provisions forbidding creditors such as debt collection agencies from harassing debtors, including: Section 36 was enacted to return the law to the position which it was generally thought to be, and applied by the courts since the mid 1930s,[3] before the landmark bar to adjournments applied by the courts since 1962 in the decision of Birmingham Citizens Permanent Building Society v Caunt [1962] which had put an end to a practice under which mortgage possession summonses were adjourned to give the mortgagor an opportunity to pay by instalments. . . . . . 1E+WWhere a magistrates’ court, on the summary trial of an information, makes an order as to costs to be paid by the accused to the prosecutor. ” means any order specified in Schedule 8 to the Administration of Justice Act 1970. . . 1 Pt.XIX, . . 1(1)) by, Word in s. 28(1) substituted (18.6.2011) by, Ss. . F25. (2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, rules of court shall be made under the said section 99 for the purpose of ensuring that the costsof and incidental to proceedings for an order under section 31 or 32 of this Act incurred by the person against whom the order is sought shall be awarded to that person unless the court otherwise directs. . . 4 repealed (31.1.1997) by 1996 c. 23, s. 107(2), Sch. I para. Regulations 2012 (S.I. Administration of Justice Act 1970 (-) Search lawindexpro for case law on this statute. 6 Pt. 1994/86, art. . .