Neither a committal order nor a confiscation of assets order may be made unless-
----(a) the order requiring the judgment debtor to do an act within a specified time or not to do an act has been served personally on the judgment debtor;
----(b) at the time that order was served it was endorsed with a notice in the following terms:
----"NOTICE: If you fail to comply with the terms of this order you will be in contempt of court and may be liable to be imprisoned or to have your assets confiscated.",
----or in the case of an order served on a body corporate in the following terms:
----"NOTICE: If you fail to comply with the terms of this order you will be in contempt of court and may be liable to have your assets confiscated."; and
----(c) where the order required the judgment debtor or do an act within a specified time or by a specified date, it was served on the judgment debtor in sufficient time to give him a reasonable opportunity to do the act before the expiration of that time or before that date.
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