{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/15",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of sections 95 to 103.\n(2) In those provisions—\n“Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;\n“creditor”, in relation to a judgment debt, means—\n(a)the person to whom the debt is payable (whether directly or through any court, an officer of any court or another person);\n(b)where the debt is payable under an administration order (within the meaning of Part 6 of the County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28)), any one of the creditors scheduled to the order;\n“debtor”, in relation to a judgment debt, means the person by whom the debt is payable;\n“departmental information request” has the meaning given by section 97;\n“information” means information held in any form;\n“information discloser”, in relation to an information order, has the meaning given by section 98(1)(a);\n“information order” has the meaning given by section 98;\n“judgment debt” means either of the following—\n(a)a sum which is payable under a judgment or order enforceable by the High Court , the family court or the county court;\n(b)a sum which, by virtue of an enactment, is recoverable as if it were payable under a judgment or order of the High Court , the family court or of the county court (including a sum which is so recoverable because a court so orders);\n“required information”, in relation to an information order, has the meaning given by section 98(1)(b);\n“relevant court”, in relation to an application under section 95, means the court to which the application is made.\n(3) Any reference to information held on behalf of a government department, or on behalf of an information discloser, includes a reference to any information which—\n(a) is held by a person who provides services to the department or to the information discloser, and\n(b) is held by that person in connection with the provision of those services.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 104 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/605), arts. 1, 24(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 104 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/605), arts. 1, 24(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(2) 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/15/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:45.892078+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."
}