C2Part V Enforcement of Judgments and Orders

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. V (ss. 85-111) applied (1.1.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (c. 19), ss. 149(2), 358(1) (with ss. 352, 354); S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 4)

Seizure and custody of goods etc.

C192 Penalty for rescuing goods seized.

1

If any person rescues or attempts to rescue any goods seized in execution under process of F3the county court , he shall be liable—

a

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or both; or

b

on an order made by the F4county court in that behalf, to be committed for a specified period not exceeding one month to . . . F1 prison . . . F1or to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to be so committed and to such a fine.

and F5an officer of the court may take the offender into custody, with or without warrant, and bring him before the F4county court .

2

F6A judge of the county court may at any time revoke an order committing a person to prison under this section and, if he is already in custody, order his discharge.

F23

This section does not apply in the case of goods seized under Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.