If at any time at which any goods or chattels belonging to any person (in this section referred to as "the person in default") are liable to be taken by virtue of any execution or other process, warrant, or authority whatever, or by virtue of any assignment, on any account or pretence whatever, except at the suit of the landlord for rent, the person in default is in arrears in respect of any such claims as are referred to in subsection (1A) below, the goods or chattels may not be so taken unless on demand made by the collector the person at whose suit the execution or seizure is made, or to whom the assignment was made, pays or causes to be paid to the collector, before the sale or removal of the goods or chattels, all such sums as have fallen due at or before the date of seizure.
The sums referred to in subsection (1) above are—
If the sums referred to in subsection (1) above are not paid within ten days of the date of the demand referred to in that subsection, the collector may distrain the goods and chattels notwithstanding the seizure or assignment, and may proceed to the sale thereof, as prescribed by this Act, for the purpose of obtaining payment of the whole of those sums, and the reasonable costs and charges attending such distress and sale, and every collector so doing shall be indemnified by virtue of this Act.
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This section does not extend to England and Wales.