{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016",
  "path": "rule/12.53",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.53",
  "heading": "Warrants (general provisions)",
  "text": "(1) A warrant issued by the court under any provision of the Act must be addressed to such officer of the High Court or of the County Court as the warrant specifies, or to any constable.\n(2) The persons referred to in sections 134(2), 236(5), 251N(5), 364(1) , 365(3) and 366(3) (court's powers of enforcement) as the prescribed officer of the court are—\n(a) in the case of the High Court, the tipstaff and the tipstaff's assistants of the court; and\n(b) in the case of the County Court, a bailiff.\n(3) In this Chapter references to property include books, papers and other documents and records.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 346(1)(a) and (2) is amended by paragraph 50 of Schedule 19 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 12.46-12.53 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 78-82, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/12.53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:01.539785+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."
}