Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 30th November 1995.

Rate of deductions in diligence against earnings

2

In each of sections 53(2)(b) and 63(4)(b) of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (which make provision as respects the sum to be deducted from earnings by an employer in certain cases), for “£5” there shall be substituted “£9”.

3

For Tables A, B and C of Schedule 2 to that Act (which sets out the deductions to be made under earnings arrestments), there shall be substituted respectively Tables A, B and C set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

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