The Distress for Rent (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 2003/1858 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2141 (L. 34)

DISTRESS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Distress for Rent (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003

Made

14th August 2003

Coming into force

15th August 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8 of the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888(1) hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Distress for Rent (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003 and shall come into force on 15th August 2003.

Amendments to Distress for Rent Rules 1988

2.  In Appendix 1 to the Distress for Rent Rules 1988(2), for paragraph 1 substitute—

“1.   For levying distress—

(i) on any debt up to and including £100 a fixed fee of	£21.65
(ii) on any debt which exceeds £100 a scale fee calculated as follows:
on the first £100 of that debt	£21.65
on the next £100	12½%
on the next £400	4%
on the next £1,500	2½%
on the next £8,000	1%
and on any additional sum	¼%.”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 14th August 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules which apply to England and Wales, amend the Distress for Rent Rules 1988 which relate to distress for rent and (by virtue of the modification effected by the Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts (Certificated Bailiffs) Regulations 1993) for debts under section 78 of the Road Traffic Act 1991.

These Rules clarify the amendments proposed by S.I. 2003/1858.

For levying distress a fixed fee of £21.65 will be payable on any debt up to and including £100.

On any debt which exceeds £100, a scale fee will apply as follows:

on the first £100 of that debt	£21.65
on the next £100	12½%
on the next £400	4%
on the next £1,500	2½%
on the next £8,000	1%
and on any additional sum	¼%.

(1)

1888 c. 21.

(2)

S.I. 1988/2050, amended by S.I. 2003/1858.