Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987

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

(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.