General and miscellaneous
Section 143 – Expenses of residual attachment
409.This section provides that the expenses incurred by the creditor in carrying out the residual attachment will be chargeable against the debtor and can be recovered only by the attachment and not by any other legal process. Any expenses not recovered by the time the residual attachment is completed will cease to be chargeable against the debtor. Subsection (5) gives the court power, if satisfied that the debtor has objected on frivolous grounds to an application for a satisfaction order, to award expenses against the debtor not exceeding an amount prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations.
Section 144 – Ascription
410.This section provides that, where any sums are recovered by residual attachment or are paid by the debtor while the attachment is in force, those sums must be ascribed to the following heads of claim in the following order—
the expenses of the residual attachment chargeable against the debtor;
interest on the debt due as at the date the residual attachment order was made;
the debt due and any interest on it which has accrued since the making of that order.
Section 145 – Interpretation
411.This section defines what is meant by expressions used in this Chapter. It also provides the Scottish Ministers with power to modify the definitions of “decree” and “document of debt”. That power is exercisable by regulations subject to negative resolution procedure (see section 224(3)).
