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20(1)If at any time any sums due by way of principal or interest on any security created by a local authority remain unpaid for a period of two months after demand in writing, the person entitled thereto, being the holder of such a security to the amount of not less than £1,000, or the persons entitled thereto, being the holders of such securities amounting together to not less than £2,000, may present a petition to the Court of Session for the appointment of a judicial factor, and the Court may, if they think fit, appoint a judicial factor.S
(2)Subject to the directions of the Court, the judicial factor shall have all the powers of the local authority [F1of levying rates, [F2the council tax and the council water charge]], making requisitions on [F3other local authorities] and collecting and recovering sums due to the authority in respect of rates or requisitions and any other sums whatsoever due to the authority and such other powers and duties as the Court think fit, and shall apply all money received by him, after payment of expenses including a proper remuneration for his trouble, as the Court direct for the purposes of this Schedule.
(3)The judicial factor shall have such access to and use of the books and documents of the local authority as he may require.
(4)The powers conferred by this paragraph shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers competent to the holder of a security for enforcing payment of the sums due under the security.
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F1Words substituted by Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47, SIF 81:2, 103:2), s. 6, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 35(a)
F2Words in Sch. 3 para. 20(2) substituted (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 117(1), Sch. 13 para. 44(b) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4)); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(c).
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