DISTRESS FOR RENT.
No. 1 of 1883.
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liable to seizure.
15. In pursuance of the warrant aforesaid, the bailiff shall seize the movable property found in or upon the house or premises mentioned in the warrant, and in the apparent possession of the person from whom the rent is claimed (hereinafter called the debtor), or such part thereof as may, in the bailiff's judgment, be sufficient to cover the amount of the rent, together with the costs of the distress.
16. The bailiff shall not seize-
(1) things in actual use, in the hands of a person at the time of seizure;
(2) tools and implements not in use, where there is other movable property in or upon the house or premises sufficient to cover the amount of the rent and costs;
(3) goods of a temporary guest at an inn;
(4) goods of a lodger at a furnished lodging-house;
(5) the debtor's necessary wearing apparel;
(6) goods in the custody of the law;
(7) goods delivered to a person exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up, or managed in the way of his trade or employ.
17. On seizing any property under section 15, the bailiff shall make an inventory and appraisement of such property, and shall give a copy of such inventory and appraisement and notice in writing, according to the form in the 2nd schedule or to the like effect, to the debtor or to any other person on his behalf, in or upon the said house or premises.
18. The bailiff shall, as soon as may be, file in the Court copies of the said inventory, appraisement, and notice.
19.-(1) Any bailiff or officer appointed to execute a distress warrant may break open inner doors.
(2) If he is denied admittance to any building as to which he has a warrant to distrain, after declaring his name and business, or if, after waiting a reasonable time, no person answers or is in the building, he may apply to the Court for authority to break open outer doors and windows, so far as may be necessary to enable him to execute the warrant.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911.