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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13E+W+S Minor and Consequential Amendments

Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 18)E+W+S

53(1)In subsection (5) of section 1 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (which relates to time to pay directions), for paragraphs (e) and (ee) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—E+W+S

(e)in an action by or on behalf of—

(i)a rating authority for payment of rates;

(ii)a regional or islands council for the payment of any community charge, community water charge, council tax or council water charge; or

(iii)a regional or islands council for payment of any amount payable as a civil penalty within the meaning of subsection (9) below.

(2)At the end of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(9)In paragraph (e) of subsection (5) above—

54(1)In subsection (4) of section 5 of that Act (which relates to time to pay orders), for paragraphs (e) and (ee) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—E+W+S

(e)in relation to a debt including any sum due to—

(i)a rating authority for payment of rates;

(ii)a regional or islands council for the payment of any community charge, community water charge, council tax or council water charge; or

(iii)a regional or islands council for payment of any amount payable as a civil penalty within the meaning of subsection (9) below.

(2)At the end of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(9)In paragraph (e) of subsection (4) above—

Marginal Citations

55E+W+SIn section 106 of that Act (interpretation)—

(a)the definition of “levying authority" shall cease to have effect; and

(b)in the definition of “summary warrant", for the word “or" there shall be substituted the words “ , paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 or ”.

56E+W+SIn paragraph 35 of Schedule 5 to that Act, in the definition of “creditor" there shall be inserted at the end—

(e)for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992, the levying authority.