The Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts (Certificated Bailiffs) Regulations 1993

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts (Certificated Bailiffs) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st September 1993.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,

“the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991;

“the Rules” means the Distress for Rent Rules 1988(1).

(3) References in these Regulations to a rule or Appendix by number means the rule or Appendix so numbered in the Rules.

(4) Expressions which are used in the Rules have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in those Rules.

2.  A bailiff who holds a general certificate granted under the Rules shall be deemed to be a certificated bailiff for the purposes of section 78 of the Act and a bailiff who does not hold a general certificate granted under the Rules but who wishes to be certificated for the purposes of section 78 of the Act shall apply for a general certificate.

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts Order 1993(2) and of these Regulations, the Rules shall apply for the execution of warrants of execution by bailiffs under section 78 of the Act as those Rules apply for the levy of distress for rent.

(2) References in the Rules to levying distress for rent shall include references to levying distress for the purposes of the Act.

(3) References in the Rules to a tenant shall include references to the person against whose goods distress is levied for the purposes of the Act.

4.  Rule 10 shall have effect as if for the reference to Appendix 1 there were substituted a reference to Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

5.  Appendix 2 shall have effect as if for forms 7, 8 and 9 there were substituted the forms contained in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 30th July 1993