Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Sequestration order against individual in contempt N.I.

111.—(1) Where an individual is in contempt for failing to comply with any judgment—

(a) requiring him to pay money into court, or

(b) requiring him to do an act (other than the payment of money) within a limited time,

the High Court or, where the judgment was given by a county court or a court of summary jurisdiction, a county court may make an order of sequestration ( “a sequestration order”) against him.

(2) A sequestration order may appoint one or more than one sequestrator nominated by the party seeking to enforce the judgment and shall empower any person so appointed to—

(a) enter upon any lands being the property of the party against whom the judgment has been given;

(b) receive, sequestrate and take the rents and profits of any such lands;

(c) take any other personal property of the party referred to in sub-paragraph ( a) and keep such property under sequestration in his hands until that party has complied with the judgment.

(3) Where money is to be paid under any judgment in respect of which a sequestration order has been made, the sequestrator may with the leave of the court which made the order apply towards the satisfaction of the judgment any rents and profits or other personal property taken or kept by virtue of the order.