Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 6 April 2022.

Rate of deductions in diligence against earnings

2.  In the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987—

(a) in sections 53(2)(b) (deductions to be made under current maintenance arrestments) and 63(4)(b) (deductions to be made under conjoined arrestment orders), for “17.42”(1) substitute “18.63”, and

(b) for Tables A, B and C of schedule 2(2) (deductions to be made under earnings arrestment), substitute respectively Tables A, B and C in the schedule of these Regulations.

IVAN MCKEE

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

10th November 2021