{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/28",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Information as to writs and warrants of execution.",
  "text": "(1) 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—\n(a) in the case of an enforcement officer, by writing signed by that officer or a person acting under his authority, and\n(b) in the case of a sheriff, by writing signed by any clerk in the office of the under-sheriff,\ninform the ... judge of the precise time the writ was delivered to him.\n(2) 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.\n(3) 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.\n(4) In this section “ enforcement officer ” means an individual who is authorised to act as an enforcement officer under the Courts Act 2003.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 104 substituted (15.3.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 275; S.I. 2004/401, art. 2(b)(vi) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(1) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(49)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in ss. 36-147 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(1)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3 and with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 104(1) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(49)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 104(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision 2007 c. 15 Sch. 13 para. 77 (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(2) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 13 para. 77 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 104(3) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(49)(c); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 104 applied (1.9.1993) by S.I. 1993/2073, art.4(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/28/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:30.128313+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."
}