Commentary on Sections Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments Paragraph 3 - Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908 (c. 53)
918.The Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908 protects certain tenants, lodgers and other persons in specified circumstances against the acts of landlords who might otherwise seize the goods of tenants when rent is in arrears. . Section 4 sets out a list of goods to which the 1908 Act does not apply. The list includes the goods of the husband or wife of the tenant whose rent is in arrears.Paragraph 3 extends the exclusion to the goods belonging to the civil partner of a tenant.