(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations–
(a)vary a figure used in the calculation of deductions made from a person’s pay when that pay is subject to a current maintenance or conjoined arrestment (the figure is increased from £9 to £10) as set out in the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (“the 1987 Act”); and
(b)substitute new tables for those in Schedule 2 to the 1987 Act which set out the deductions made from a person’s pay when that pay is subject to an earnings arrestment.
The new figures reflect the increase in the Average Earnings Index since the tables were drawn up in 1985 and broadly restore the level of deductions in real terms to that applicable at the passing of the 1987 Act.