The enforcement regulations state that bailiffs may enter premises after 6am and before 9pm on any day.[1]
Bailiffs may not take control of goods before 6am or after 9pm on any day.[2]
Bailiff companies train their bailiffs to be early-birds to avoid the morning traffic and catch people before they leave for work, or before they are up and become startled at bailiffs turning up.
Bailiffs have been caught working overnight on household CCTV and video doorbell systems, crawling around neighbourhoods in vans with number plate recognition cameras, looking for vehicles with unpaid traffic contravention debts and clamping them,[3] undercover of darkness, then attaching a notice to the drivers door window writing the time after 6am.
[1] Regulation 22(2) of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013
[2] Regulation 13 of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013
[3] See Bailiffs and ANPR camera vans
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