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Section 104: Information as to writs and warrants of execution.

County Courts Act 1984 · 1984 c. 28View on legislation.gov.uk

Part V: Enforcement of Judgments and Orders

Where a writ against the goods of any person issued from the High Court is delivered to an enforcement officer who is under a duty to execute the writ or to a sheriff, then on demand from a judge of the county court that person shall—

in the case of an enforcement officer, by writing signed by that officer or a person acting under his authority, and
in the case of a sheriff, by writing signed by any clerk in the office of the under-sheriff,

inform the ... judge of the precise time the writ was delivered to him.

The person to whom a warrant issued by the county court is directed shall on demand show his warrant to any enforcement officer, any person acting under the authority of an enforcement officer and any sheriff's officer.

Any writing purporting to be signed as mentioned in subsection (1) and the endorsement on any warrant issued from the county court shall respectively be sufficient justification to any ... judge, or enforcement officer or sheriff, acting on it.

In this section " enforcement officer " means an individual who is authorised to act as an enforcement officer under the Courts Act 2003.

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