PART VI WARRANTS FOR DILIGENCE AND CHARGES FOR PAYMENT

91 Enforcement of certain warrants and precepts of sheriff anywhere in Scotland.

1

The following may be executed anywhere in Scotland—

a

a warrant for execution contained in an extract of a decree granted by a sheriff;

b

a warrant for execution inserted in an extract of a document registered in sheriff court books;

c

a summary warrant;

d

a warrant of a sheriff for arrestment on the dependence of an action or in security;

e

a precept (issued by a sheriff clerk) of arrestment in security of a liquid debt the term of payment of which has not arrived.

2

A warrant or precept mentioned in subsection (1) above may be executed by a sheriff officer of—

a

the court which granted it; or

b

the sheriff court district in which it is to be executed.