The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Discharge of person committed

10.—(1) The Court may, on the application of any person committed to prison until further order for any contempt of court, discharge him.

(2) Where a person has been committed for failing to comply with a judgment or order requiring him to deliver any thing to some other person or to deposit it in court or elsewhere, and an order of sequestration has also been issued to enforce that judgment or order, then, if the thing is in the "custody or power of the person committed, the sequestrators appointed by the order of sequestration may take possession of it as if it were the property of that person and, without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Court may discharge the person committed and may give such directions for dealing with the thing taken by the sequestrators as it thinks fit.