Bailiffs enforcing unpaid council tax using an enforcement power called a liability order.[1]
If a bailiff says a warrant has been issued, then he is using police-like terminology because police officers can be issued with a warrant for arrest, which gives a constable the power to enter the property to make an arrest.[2]
Calling a liability order a warrant is an offence of fraud by false representation,[3] and making a document, or article with intent to deceive or misrepresent the bailiff’s authority is also an offence.[4]
If a bailiff utters a document falsely represented by him to have some official character or purporting to have some official character which he knows it has not, guilty of an offence.[5]
[1] Regulation 34 of the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992
[2] Section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
[3] Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006
[4] Section 7 of the Fraud Act 2006
[5] Section 40(1)(d) of the Administration of Justice Act 1970
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