Section 165 – Expenses of inhibition
444.Section 165(1) provides that the expenses incurred by the creditor in carrying out an inhibition will be chargeable against the debtor but (by virtue of subsection (3)) the expenses of only one further inhibition in relation to the same debt as the original inhibition will be chargeable against the debtor. This makes it clear that, although an inhibition lasts for only 5 years (see section 156), the creditor can re-inhibit at the end of that period. However, the expenses of doing so on one occasion only are recoverable from the debtor.
445.Subsection (2) provides that inhibition expenses will be recoverable from the debtor only by land attachment or residual attachment executed to recover the debt to which the inhibition relates. There is no other legal method available to recover these expenses.
446.Subsection (4) provides that in a sequestration or other process where there is ranking, the inhibition expenses will be treated as part of the debt to which the inhibition relates. This section and sections 157 and 166 do not apply to an inhibition on the dependence (see section 157(4)).
