Exceptional attachment order
An ‘exceptional attachment’ is an order of the court allowing articles kept in a dwellinghouse to be attached. The order allows a sheriff officer to open shut and lock fast places and to attach, remove and auction the client’s non-essential assets that are in the dwellinghouse at the time of attachment.
An exceptional attachment order:
1s47 DAA(S)A 2002•authorises the attachment, removal and auction of the client’s non-essential assets which, at the time of the attachment, are kept in any dwellinghouse specified in the application; and
•specifies a period during which the order is to be executed; and
•empowers the sheriff officer to open shut and lockfast places to execute the order.