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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-174",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/174",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "174",
  "heading": "Money attachment",
  "text": "(1) There is to be a form of diligence over money owned by a debtor to be known as money attachment.\n(2) Money attachment is competent to enforce payment of a debt but only if—\n(a) the debt is constituted by a decree or document of debt;\n(b) the debtor has been charged to pay the debt;\n(c) the period for payment specified in the charge has expired without payment being made; and\n(d) where the debtor is an individual, the creditor has, no earlier than 12 weeks before executing the money attachment, provided the debtor with a debt advice and information package.\n(3) Money attachment is not competent in relation to money—\n(a) kept within a dwellinghouse; or\n(b) in relation to which arrestment is competent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/3/section/174",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:03.393234+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."
}