{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-33/rule-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-33/rule-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/33/rule/17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Sale of personal property",
  "text": "(1) Where an order directs any personal property to be sold, the property shall be sold by public auction or private contract as [ the judge] directs and shall, unless otherwise ordered, be sold with the approval of [ the judge] at the best price that can be got.\n(2) Where any personal property is directed to be sold by public auction or to be detained or preserved, a receiver or such other person as [ the judge] directs shall, if [ the judge] so directs, superintend the sale, detention or preservation, and, where such property is directed to be sold by private contract, it shall be the duty of the receiver or other person as aforesaid unless [ the judge] otherwise directs, to see that the directions of [ the judge] are carried out.\n(3) This Rule shall not apply to an execution which is required to be made by the Enforcement of Judgments Office under a decree to which the Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 applies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/33/rule/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}