This Order makes provision for a local authority in Scotland, England or Wales to secure a debt in respect of unpaid charges for residential accommodation provided by the authority against the debtor’s interest in land in Scotland.

It prescribes the forms to be employed for charging orders and for discharge of these orders (Article 3); the method for ascertaining the amount due under a charging order at any time (Article 4); and the extent to which the provisions of Part II of the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 apply to such a charging order and the modifications to such provisions as apply (Article 5).