SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

Part 3Amendments of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 66)

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1

Amend Schedule 1 (determination of amount of creditor’s claim) as follows.

2

In paragraph 2(1)(a), the words “in the case of spouses (or, where the aliment is payable to a divorced person in respect of a child, former spouses)” become paragraph 2(1)(a)(i).

3

At the end of paragraph 2(1)(a)(i) insert

, or

ii

in the case of civil partners (or, where the aliment is payable to a former civil partner in respect of a child after dissolution of a civil partnership, former civil partners),

4

In paragraph 2(2), after “divorce” insert “ or on dissolution of a civil partnership ”.