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No person making any distress for rent, taxes, rates, &c. where the sum due shall not exceed 20l. to take other charges than mentioned in the schedule (B.) annexed, nor to charge for any act, &c. not done.
Proviso where lower charges than those in schedule have been fixed by Act of Parliament.
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15. [Recital.] No person whatsoever making any distress for rent, or for any raies, taxes, impositions, or assessments, where the sum demanded and due shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds for and in respect of such rent, or rates, taxes, impositions, or assessments, save as herein-after provided, nor any person whatsoever employed in any manner in making such distress, or doing any act whatsoever in the course of such distress, or for carrying the same into effect, shall have, take, or receive out of the produce of the goods or chattels distrained upon and sold, or from the tenant distrained on, or from the landlord, or from any other person whatsoever, any other or more costs and charges for and in respect of such distress, or any matter or thing done therein, than such as are fixed and set forth in the schedule (B.) hereunto annexed, and appropriated to each act which shall have been done in the course of such distress; and no person or persons whatsoever shall make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter, or thing mentioned in the said schedule, unless such act shall have been really done: Provided always, that in any casein which a less amount than the amount specified in the said schedule shall have been prescribed by any Act or Acts of Parliament, or shall in pursuance of the provisions of or the power given by any Act or Acts of Parliament be specified in the warrant by which the distress or levy shall be made, such less amount only shall be demanded, taken, or levied for or in respect of such costs and charges, any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
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