General and miscellaneous
Section 164 – Power to prescribe forms in the 1868 Act
443.Section 164(1) amends section 159 of the 1868 Act to replace the reference to notices registered under that section being in the form of Schedule RR to that Act with a reference to them being in such form as may be prescribed. Subsection (2) inserts new section 159B into the 1868 Act (new section 159A already being inserted by section 162 of this Act). Section 159B provides that the power to prescribe the form of notices in sections 155, 159 and 159A of the 1868 Act is exercisable by the Scottish Ministers by regulations subject to the negative resolution procedure of the Scottish Parliament.
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)).
Section 166 – Ascription
447.This section applies where an inhibition executed to enforce payment of a debt is in force and any payment is made by the debtor on account of the total recoverable by the inhibiting creditor. The payments made on account are allocated to the sum recoverable in the following order—
the expenses of any other diligence chargeable against the debtor;
the inhibition expenses;
interest on the sum due as at the date the inhibition came into force;
the debt to which the inhibition relates and any interest due after the date the inhibition comes into force.
Section 167 – Keeper’s duty to enter inhibition on title sheet
448.This section inserts subsection (1A) into section 6 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979.
449.New subsection (1A) provides that the Keeper must enter an inhibition registered in the Register of Inhibitions in the title sheet of a property only where the property (or a right in it) has been transferred or created in breach of the inhibition.
Section 168 – Inhibition effective against judicial factor
450.This section provides that, irrespective of the appointment of a judicial factor on an inhibited debtor’s estate, the inhibition will continue in force. This will not be the case where the inhibited debtor is dead and a judicial factor is appointed under section 11A of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 1889.
