{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-275",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-275.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/275",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "275",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 104 (information as to writs and warrants of execution), substitute—\n“Information as to writs and warrants of execution\n104 (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 the district judge of a 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 district judge of the precise time the writ was delivered to him.\n(2) A bailiff of a county court 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 a county court shall respectively be sufficient justification to any district 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/18",
      "affecting_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/49",
      "affecting_title": "Road Safety Act 2006"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/8/paragraph/275",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+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."
}