Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987

52 Enforcement of 2 or more obligations to pay maintenance.S

(1)This section applies where one or more maintenance orders are in effect which provide for the payment by the same debtor to the same person (whether for his own benefit or for another person’s) of maintenance in respect of more than one individual.

(2)Where this section applies—

(a)all or any of the obligations to pay maintenance may be enforced by a single current maintenance arrestment against the same earnings; and

(b)in that case, the current maintenance arrestment schedule shall specify one daily rate of maintenance, being the aggregate of the daily rates calculated in accordance with section 51(5) of this Act.