Distress (Costs) Act, 1817

No person making any distress for rent, where the sum due shall not exceed 20l. to take other charges than mentioned in the schedule annexed;

nor to charge for any act not really done.

[1.] No person whatsoever making any distress for rent, where the sum demanded and due shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds for and in respect of such rent, 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 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.