HC Deb 04 March 1992 vol 205 c350

  1. (".—(l) Schedule 4 to the 1988 Act (community charges: enforcement) shall he amended as follows.
  2. (2) In paragraph 7 (distress), after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(3A) The regulations may include provision that—

  1. (a) no person shall make a distress unless he is an officer of the authority concerned, or he is a person of a prescribed description and any prescribed conditions are fulfilled;
  2. (b) no person making a distress shall seize goods of a prescribed description."

  1. (3) In paragraph 8 (commitment to prison), in sub-paragraph (1)(a), for the words "it appears to the authority that no (or insufficient) goods of the debtor can be found" there shall be substituted the words "the person making the distress reports to the authority that he was unable (for whatever reason) to find any or sufficient goods of the debtor".
  2. (4) After paragraph 13 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—