{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adults-with-incapacity-scotland-act-2000/section-26A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adults-with-incapacity-scotland-act-2000/section-26A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adults-with-incapacity-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "section/26A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26A",
  "heading": "Withdrawal certificates",
  "text": "(1) A withdrawal certificate may—\n(a) authorise the transfer of funds—\n(i) from the adult's current account to the designated account;\n(ii) from the adult's current account to the adult's second account;\n(iii) from the designated account to the adult's second account;\n(b) authorise the continuance or making of arrangements for the regular or occasional payment of funds from the adult's current account for specified purposes (for example: by standing order or direct debit);\n(c) authorise the withdrawal of funds from the designated account for specified purposes;\n(d) place limits on the amount of funds that may be so transferred, paid or withdrawn.\n(2) But such a certificate does not authorise a transfer of funds or payment that would cause—\n(a) the adult's current account;\n(b) the adult's second account; or\n(c) the designated account,\nto become overdrawn.\n(3) If any of the accounts mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (2) is overdrawn, the fundholder of that account has a right of relief against the withdrawer.\n(4) In subsection (1)(b), “specified” means specified in the certificate of appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 substituted (1.4.2008) by Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 10), ss. 58, 79(3); S.S.I. 2008/49, art. 2(1) (with arts. 3 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/4/section/26A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:28.069528+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}