EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the ninth commencement order made under the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) (“the Act”). It brings into force section 25 of the Act.

Section 25 is brought into force to coincide with the coming into force of the provisions in sections 62 to 90 of and Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(1) which it amends, which make provision for the replacement of various powers of enforcement by way of execution and distraint by a procedure known as taking control of goods, and for the replacement of distress for rent by a power (to be known as commercial rent arrears recovery, or CRAR) to use the taking control of goods procedure.