Distress for Rent (Bailiffs) Act 1933 (Cap. 76).

Country/Territory: Uganda
Document type: Legislation
Date: 1933 (2000)
Source: FAO, FAOLEX
Long title: An Act relating to the appointment of bailiffs for the purposes of distress for rent.

Subject: Land & soil
Keyword: Lease Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area: Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries

Abstract: This Act prescribes that a person, other than a landlord or his or her attorney or the legal owner of a reversion, shall only act as bailiff to levy any distress for rent if authorized by a certificate of a certifying officer. A certificate may be general or apply to a particular distress or distresses. Any person, required by this Act to hold a certificate as a bailiff, who levies distress for rent without a certificate, shall be, without prejudice to any civil liability, liable to a specified
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