Distress for Rent (Bailiffs) Act (Chapter 76)
Uganda
Distress for Rent (Bailiffs) Act
Chapter 76
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Commenced on 30 June 1933
- [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2000.]
- [Note: The version of the Act as at 31 December 2000 was revised and consolidated by the Law Reform Commission of Uganda. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for ULII.]
In this Act— No person, other than a landlord in person, his or her attorney or the legal owner of a reversion, shall act as bailiff to levy any distress for rent unless he or she shall be authorised to act as bailiff by a certificate in writing under the hand of a certifying officer, and such certificate may be general or apply to a particular distress or distresses. A certificate so granted may at any time be cancelled or declared void by a certifying officer. Any person, required by this Act to hold a certificate as a bailiff, who levies distress for rent without being the holder of a certificate, is, without prejudice to any civil liability, liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred shillings. The Minister may, on the advice of the Chief Justice, make rules—
1. Interpretation
2. Appointment of bailiffs under certificate of certifying officer
3. Power of cancellation, etc. of certificate
4. Penalty for acting without certificate
5. Power to make rules