(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force provisions of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3) (“the Act”).
The Act received Royal Assent on 15th January 2007. Sections 224, 225 and 227 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent and section 222 came into force on the day after Royal Assent.
The provisions of the Act which are brought into force by this Order, other than sections 221 and 223 and paragraph 42(a) of schedule 1, amend the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17) which provides for the debt arrangement scheme and for the diligence of attachment of corporeal moveable property.
Sections 221 and 223 relate, respectively, to interpretation and to Crown application. Paragraph 42(a) of schedule 1 to the Act amends section 48 of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 66).