Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002

6 Deduction from earnings S

(1) Where an approved debt payment programme requires sums to be paid to the payments distributor by way of deduction of the debtor’s earnings from employment, the debtor shall provide an instruction, in the prescribed form, to the person by whom the debtor is employed to make—

(a) deductions from the debtor’s earnings; and

(b) payments of the amounts deducted to the payments distributor,

in accordance with the provisions of the debt payment programme.

(2) It is the duty of the employer to comply with any instruction so provided.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 1 modified (30.11.2004) by Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (Transfer of Functions to the Accountant in Bankruptcy) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/448), arts. 1, 3

Commencement Information

I1 S. 6(1) in force at 24.9.2004 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2004/416, art. 2(1)(a)

I2 S. 6(1) in force at 30.11.2004 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2004/416, art. 2(2)

I3 S. 6(2) in force at 30.11.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/416, art. 2(2)