Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54)

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66(1)Section 43ZA of the Supreme Court Act 1981 (power of High Court to vary committal in default) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) for “distress” in both places substitute “goods”.

(3)After subsection (2) insert—

(3)In subsection (1) references to want of sufficient goods to satisfy a sum are references to circumstances where—

(a)there is power to use the procedure in Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to recover the sum from a person, but

(b)it appears, after an attempt has been made to exercise the power, that the person’s goods are insufficient to pay the amount outstanding (as defined by paragraph 50(3) of that Schedule).