{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/distress-for-rent-rules-1988/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/distress-for-rent-rules-1988/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Complaints as to fitness to hold a certificate",
  "text": "(1) Any complaint as to the conduct or fitness of any bailiff who holds a certificate shall be made to the court from which the certificate issued.\n(2) Upon receipt of any such complaint as is referred to in paragraph (1), the proper officer shall send written details of the complaint to the bailiff and require him to deliver a written reply to the court office within 14 days thereafter or within such longer time as the court may specify.\n(3) If the bailiff fails to deliver the reply within the time specified, or if upon reading the reply the Judge is unsatisfied as to the bailiff’s fitness to hold a certificate, the proper officer shall issue a notice summoning the bailiff to appear before the Judge on a specified date and show cause why his certificate should not be cancelled.\n(4) The proper officer shall send a copy of the notice to the complainant and any other interested party.\n(5) At the hearing:—\n(i) the bailiff shall attend for examination and may make representations, and\n(ii) the complainant may attend and make representations.\n(6) The procedure to be followed at the hearing, including the calling of evidence, shall be such as the Judge considers just, and he may proceed with the hearing notwithstanding that the bailiff has failed to attend.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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/8",
    "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."
}