Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Property exempt from seizureN.I.

33.  An order of seizure shall not be authority for the seizure of property of any of the following descriptions:—

(a)such wearing apparel, furniture, bedding and household equipment of the debtor and his spouse[F1 or civil partner] as appear to the Office to be essential for the domestic purposes of the debtor, his spouse[F1 or civil partner] and his dependants residing with him, or any of them;

(b)the tools and implements of the debtor's trade to the value of[F2 £200] or of such greater amount as may be fixed by rules;

(c)any property which has, at the date when the order takes effect, been seized under any other statutory provision;

(d)any property held by the debtor in trust for or on behalf of any other person or body;

(e)any property in the hands of a receiver appointed by a court, except with the leave of the court which appointed the receiver;

(f)any property exempted from seizure by any other statutory provision.

F2SR 1983/150