Explanatory note

This Order amends the fees payable to sheriffs for the execution of process issuing out of the High Court. The mileage fee is increased and made payable not only on a journey to seize the goods under a writ of fi. fa. but also on a journey to remove the goods or to execute a writ of possession or delivery. Certain other fees are also increased. Provision is made for the poundage on a writ of possession to be charged on the net annual value of the property for rating instead of its yearly value. The poundage on writs of fi. fa., possession and delivery is put on a percentage basis and provision is made for certain percentage fees to be calculated on every £2 of the relevant sum.