The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Functions and duty of a payments distributor

16.—(1) It is a function of a payments distributor—

(a) to assist the DAS Administrator and any continuing money adviser with, and advise on, payments distribution;

(b) to distribute sums received in accordance with the debt payment programme;

(c) to provide payment and distribution reports to the DAS Administrator, any continuing money adviser, and to creditors;

(d) to provide information to the DAS Administrator about the exercise of a function of a payments distributor; and

(e) to remit the fee payable in accordance with regulation 5 to the DAS Administrator.

(2) On an approval being revoked under regulation 15 or a distributor otherwise ceasing to act, the distributor whose approval is revoked, or who ceases to act, must transfer to a substitute payments distributor specified by the DAS Administrator the debt payment programmes for which that first distributor is responsible, within a reasonable period specified by the DAS Administrator.

(3) A payments distributor must have regard to guidance issued by the DAS Administrator when carrying out a function of a distributor.