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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/226",
  "legislation_title": "Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Property exempt from seizure",
  "text": "An order of seizure shall not be authority for the seizure of property of any of the following descriptions:—\n(a) such wearing apparel, furniture, bedding and household equipment of the debtor and his spouse or civil partner as appear to the Office to be essential for the domestic purposes of the debtor, his spouse or civil partner and his dependants residing with him, or any of them;\n(b) the tools and implements of the debtor's trade to the value of £200 or of such greater amount as may be fixed by rules;\n(c) any property which has, at the date when the order takes effect, been seized under any other statutory provision;\n(d) any property held by the debtor in trust for or on behalf of any other person or body;\n(e) any property in the hands of a receiver appointed by a court, except with the leave of the court which appointed the receiver;\n(f) any property exempted from seizure by any other statutory provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2004 c. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1983/150"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/226/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:20.705084+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."
}