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ARE THEY ANY PROPERTIES OR ITEMS WHICH CANNOT BE SEIZED IN THE EXECUTION OF WRIT OF SEIZURE AND SALE ?

Yes.

There exist a series of limitations that enable a debtor to protect funds sufficient to provide the "necessities of life".

Under the Debtor's Act 1957, the following shall not be liable to seizure or sale in the execution of writ of seizure and sale, namely :

• the wearing apparel, cooking vessels, beds or bedding of the judgment debtor, his wife and children, and the tools and implements of his trade to the value of RM$200.00 in all, which to that extent shall be protected from execution



• the tools or artisans or where the judgment debtor is an agriculturalist, his implements of husbandry and such cattle and seed-grain or produce as may in the opinion of the Court be necessary to enable him to earn his livelihood as such.



• houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the land immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) belonging to an agriculturalist and occupied by him



• books of account