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Part 4Land attachment and residual attachment

Chapter 3Residual attachment

General and miscellaneous

143Expenses of residual attachment

(1)The expenses incurred by the creditor in executing a residual attachment are chargeable against the debtor.

(2)Expenses which, in accordance with subsection (1) above, are chargeable against the debtor are recoverable from the debtor by the residual attachment but not by any other legal process.

(3)Where any expenses such as are referred to in subsection (2) above have not been recovered by the time the residual attachment is completed, or otherwise ceases to have effect, they cease to be so recoverable.

(4)In subsection (2) above, the reference to expenses does not include a reference to expenses of service of a charge.

(5)The court may, if satisfied that the debtor has objected to an application for a satisfaction order on frivolous grounds, award expenses, not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations, against the debtor.

144Ascription

(1)This section applies where any sums are—

(a)recovered by a residual attachment; or

(b)paid to account of the sum recoverable by the residual attachment while it is in effect.

(2)Such sums must be ascribed to the following in the order in which they are mentioned—

(a)the expenses which are chargeable against the debtor incurred in the residual attachment;

(b)any interest which has accrued, at the date of the making of the residual attachment order, on the sum for payment for which the charge was served;

(c)any sum for payment of which that charge was served together with such interest as has accrued after the day mentioned in paragraph (b) above.

145Interpretation

(1)In this Chapter—

(2)The Scottish Ministers may by order modify the definitions of “decree” and “document of debt” in subsection (1) above by—

(a)adding types of decree or document to;

(b)removing types of decree or document from; or

(c)varying the description of,

the types of decree or document to which those definitions apply.