Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 E+W [F1 Enforcement of Certain Writs and Warrants]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 heading substituted (1.4.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 140(10)(b)(i), 148(5); S.I. 2007/2709, art. 5(a)

Enforcement officers: general E+W

Direction of writs of execution to enforcement officers E+W

3 (1) A writ of execution issued from the High Court may be directed— E+W

(a) if only one enforcement officer is assigned to the district in which the writ is to be executed, to that officer,

(b) if two or more enforcement officers are assigned to that district, to those officers collectively, or

(c) to a named enforcement officer who, whether or not assigned to that district, has undertaken to execute the writ.

(2) In this paragraph “writ of execution” does not include—

(a) a writ of sequestration, or

(b) a writ relating to ecclesiastical property.