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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/schedule-12/paragraph-66",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/15",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/66",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where an enforcement agent—\n(a) breaches a provision of this Schedule, or\n(b) acts under an enforcement power under a writ, warrant, liability order or other instrument that is defective.\n(2) The breach or defect does not make the enforcement agent, or a person he is acting for, a trespasser.\n(3) But the debtor may bring proceedings under this paragraph.\n(4) Subject to rules of court, the proceedings may be brought—\n(a) in the High Court, in relation to an enforcement power under a writ of the High Court;\n(b) in the county court, in relation to an enforcement power under a warrant issued by the county court;\n(c) in any other case, in the High Court or the county court.\n(5) In the proceedings the court may—\n(a) order goods to be returned to the debtor;\n(b) order the enforcement agent or a related party to pay damages in respect of loss suffered by the debtor as a result of the breach or of anything done under the defective instrument.\n(6) A related party is either of the following (if different from the enforcement agent)—\n(a) the person on whom the enforcement power is conferred,\n(b) the creditor.\n(7) Sub-paragraph (5) is without prejudice to any other powers of the court.\n(8) Sub-paragraph (5)(b) does not apply where the enforcement agent acted in the reasonable belief—\n(a) that he was not breaching a provision of this Schedule, or\n(b) (as the case may be) that the instrument was not defective.\n(9) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 59 in the case of a breach of paragraph 58(3).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 66(4) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 applied (6.4.2014) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), ss. 127(2), 129(4); S.I. 2014/906, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 66 in force at 6.4.2014 by S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:45.892078+00:00"
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  "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."
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