{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/distress-for-rent-rules-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/distress-for-rent-rules-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2050",
  "legislation_title": "The Distress for Rent Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/distress-for-rent-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“Judge” means a Judge of a county court;\n“certificate” means a certificate to act as a bailiff granted under the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888, as amended by the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1895;\n“Registrar” means a Registrar of a county court;\n“Proper officer” shall have the meaning given in the County Court Rules 1981 by virtue of Order 1, rule 3 of those Rules;\n“lodge in court” shall have the meaning given in the Court Funds Rules 1987;\n“Court Funds Rules” means the Court Funds Rules 1987.\n(2) A Form referred to by number in these Rules means the Form so numbered in Appendix 2 to these Rules and shall be used with such variations as the circumstances may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1687, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Rules."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/821, amended by S.I. 1988/817."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "continued",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Certification of Enforcement Agents Regulations 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2050/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:26.022058+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."
}