PART III

DILIGENCE AGAINST EARNINGS

Supplementary provisions

Employer’s fee for operating diligence against earnings.
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On any occasion on which an employer makes a payment to a creditor under an earnings arrestment or a current maintenance arrestment or to the sheriff clerk under a conjoined arrestment order, he may charge the debtor a fee of 50 pence or such other sum as may be prescribed in regulations made by the Lord Advocate which shall be deductible from the amount of the debtor’s net earnings after any deduction has been made from them under section 47, 51 or 60 of this Act.
S. 71 sum specified (5.4.2006) by The Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/116), regs. 1(1), 3