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What goods are exempt from seizure?

The following list is contained under the Child Support Agency, Collection & Enforcement Regulations. The relevant Statutory Legislation concerning this is the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992, Section 30.

• Tools, books, vehicles, and other items of equipment which are necessary for the
   non-resident parent to carry out their employment, business or vocation
• Clothing, bedding, furniture, household equipment and provisions which are needed   to satisfy the basic domestic needs of the non-resident parent and their family, such   as the following:

• Clothes reasonably required for the debtor and his family
• Medical aids or equipment
• Educational or training articles reasonably required for the debtor and family (this does   not include home computers)
• Children’s toys
• Articles for the care and upbringing of a child, for example, pushchairs, prams
• Articles for the care of someone physically or mentally disabled, for example,   wheelchair
• Articles used for cleaning, mending, pressing clothes
• Articles used for cleaning the home
• Bed and bedding required by the members of the household
• Household linen
• A table (unless a breakfast bar or the like is available) and a chair for each member of   the family
• Food
• Lights or light fittings, except where free standing
• Heating appliances, except where free standing, unless they provide the only form of   eating and there is a child or elderly person living in the home
• Curtains
• Floor coverings, where the bare floor would be exposed if removed
• Cooking utensils, refrigerators, a cooker (excluding microwaves which are not the only   form of cooking)
• Washing machines (where there is a child under 11 or if there is incontinence in the   family)
• Cleaning equipment including vacuum cleaners
• Any articles required for the safety of the persons living in the home
• Tools used within the household reasonably required for domestic repair

You will find in under our Letters section of our Downloads area that we have provided a letter that can be sent to the bailiff company to advice them that goods do not belong to you or that a vehicle is necessary for employment etc.