Explanatory Notes

Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007

2007 asp 3

15 January 2007

The Act

Commentary

Part 4 – Land Attachment and Residual Attachment
Chapter 3 – Residual attachment
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.