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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><PrimaryPrelims DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/introduction" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/introduction"><Title>Law of Distress Amendment Act 1895</Title><Number>1895 c.24</Number><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText>[6th July 1895]</DateText></DateOfEnactment></PrimaryPrelims><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/body" NumberOfProvisions="6" RestrictStartDate="2014-04-22"><P1group RestrictStartDate="2014-04-22"><Title> Power to cancel bailiffs’ certificates.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/1" id="section-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P1para><Text>A certificate granted to a bailiff by <Substitution ChangeId="key-60b5fe145eef67b9231031e106cf6668-1431509869975" CommentaryRef="key-60b5fe145eef67b9231031e106cf6668">
                      a judge of the county court
                    </Substitution> under the <CommentaryRef Ref="c576490"/>Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888, may at any time be cancelled or declared void by a judge of <Substitution ChangeId="key-32a8846890886266f5bdcb38b735ee34-1431509914092" CommentaryRef="key-32a8846890886266f5bdcb38b735ee34">the county court
                    </Substitution>, . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c576491"/></Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title> Penalty for acting without certificate.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/2" id="section-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P1para><Text>If any person not holding a certificate for the time being in force under the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888, levies a distress contrary to the provisions of that Act, he shall without prejudice to any civil liability be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding <Addition ChangeId="d30p63" CommentaryRef="c576492">level 1 on the standard scale</Addition>.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group ConfersPower="true"><Title> Duration of certificates.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/3" id="section-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P1para><Text>The power to make rules under the <CommentaryRef Ref="c576493"/>Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888 shall extend to making provision for fixing the duration of certificates granted, or to be hereafter granted, to bailiffs.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title> Unlawful distress.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/4" id="section-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P1para><Text>A court of summary jurisdiction, on complaint that goods or chattels exempt under section four of the <CommentaryRef Ref="c576494"/>Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888 from distress for rent, have been taken under such distress, may, by summary order, direct that the goods and chattels so taken, if not sold, be restored; or, if they have been sold, that such sum as the court may determine to be the value thereof shall be paid to the complainant by the person who levied the distress or directed it to be levied.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c576495"/></Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/5" id="section-5"><Pnumber>5</Pnumber><P1para><Text/></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title> Short title.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/6" id="section-6"><Pnumber>6</Pnumber><P1para><Text>This Act may be cited as the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1895.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c576490" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1888/21" id="c00001" Year="1888" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1888 c. 21</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c576491" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1908/49" id="c00002" Year="1908" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="Statute Law Revision Act 1908">Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)</Citation></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c576492" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words substituted by virtue of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/48" id="c00003" Year="1982" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="48" Title="Criminal Justice Act 1982">Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00004" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/48/section/46" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00003" SectionRef="section-46">s. 46</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c576493" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1888/21" id="c00005" Year="1888" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1888 c. 21</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c576494" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1888/21" id="c00006" Year="1888" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1888 c. 21</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c576495" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/5" SectionRef="section-5">S. 5</CitationSubRef> repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/60" id="c00008" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="60" Title="Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984">Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95, 47)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00009" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/60/section/119/2" CitationRef="c00008" SectionRef="section-119-2">s. 119(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00010" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/60/schedule/7/part/V" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00008" SectionRef="schedule-7-part-V">Sch. 7 Pt. V</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-60b5fe145eef67b9231031e106cf6668" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00006" SectionRef="section-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/1">s. 1</CitationSubRef> substituted (22.4.2014) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22" id="cr8v52gh1-00007" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2013" Number="22" Title="Crime and Courts Act 2013">Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00008" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00007" SectionRef="section-61-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/61/3">s. 61(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00009" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00007" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-17-a" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/schedule/9/paragraph/17/a" Operative="true">Sch. 9 para. 17(a)</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954" id="cr8v52gh1-00010" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2014" Number="954" Title="The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014">S.I. 2014/954</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00011" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00010" SectionRef="article-2-c" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954/article/2/c">art. 2(c)</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00012" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00010" SectionRef="article-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954/article/3">art. 3</CitationSubRef>) (with transitional provisions and savings in <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/956" id="cr8v52gh1-00013" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2014" Number="956">S.I. 2014/956</Citation>, arts. 3-11)</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-32a8846890886266f5bdcb38b735ee34" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00020" SectionRef="section-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Vict/58-59/24/section/1">s. 1</CitationSubRef> substituted (22.4.2014) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22" id="cr8v52gh1-00021" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2013" Number="22" Title="Crime and Courts Act 2013">Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00022" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00021" SectionRef="section-61-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/61/3">s. 61(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00023" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00021" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-17-b" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/schedule/9/paragraph/17/b" Operative="true">Sch. 9 para. 17(b)</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954" id="cr8v52gh1-00024" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2014" Number="954" Title="The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014">S.I. 2014/954</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00025" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00024" SectionRef="article-2-c" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954/article/2/c">art. 2(c)</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef id="cr8v52gh1-00026" CitationRef="cr8v52gh1-00024" SectionRef="article-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/954/article/3">art. 3</CitationSubRef>) (with transitional provisions and savings in <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/956" id="cr8v52gh1-00027" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2014" Number="956">S.I. 2014/956</Citation>, arts. 3-11)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>