CRAR Inventory of Goods for Joint Owners

This CRAR Inventory of Goods for Joint Owners is used when an enforcement agent has taken control of goods under the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) procedure and some of those goods are owned jointly by the tenant and another person.

Background to the CRAR procedure

CRAR came into force on 6 April 2014. It replaces the old remedy of distress, which allowed landlords to seize and sell property belonging to a tenant with rent arrears. The CRAR regime is more limited in scope and sets out a prescribed enforcement procedure.

A temporary moratorium on exercising CRAR applied to 'protected rent debts' under the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022. That moratorium ended on 23 September 2022 and no longer applies.

The enforcement agent's duty to provide an inventory

If an enforcement agent has entered the tenant's premises and taken control of goods, the agent must give the tenant an Inventory of those goods as soon as reasonably practicable.

Where some of the goods taken are owned jointly by the tenant and another person, the enforcement agent must also give the tenant separate inventories of the goods owned by the debtor and by each co-owner, together with an inventory of any goods in the tenant's sole ownership. The agent must also give a copy of each inventory to the relevant joint owner, together with a copy of the Notice of Entering.

This Inventory should be used for co-owned items. For items owned solely by the tenant, use the CRAR Inventory of Goods for Single Owner instead.

Completing this document

Regulation 33 prescribes the inventory information and signature; it does not prescribe this layout as a statutory form. Complete the debtor, co-owner, enforcement-agent, date and detailed-goods information required, and do not delete mandatory content.

• Paragraphs 1 to 3: details of the property, the lease and the landlord.
• Paragraph 5: the amount of the debt.
• Paragraph 8: the enforcement agent's list of the controlled goods, including a description of each item detailed enough to identify it.

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