Article 3 Storage and sale of property

Subject to paragraph (2), property, in respect of which a notice under Article 2 has been served on the tenant and which has not been collected by the date specified in the notice, shall be stored by the landlord for a period of 6 months from the date on which the landlord took possession of the dwelling–house and, after expiry of that period, the landlord may sell any item remaining in the landlord’s custody.

Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any property the value of which would not, in the opinion of the landlord, exceed the amount which the landlord would be entitled to deduct under Article 7 in respect of storage costs from the proceeds of any sale of such item.