{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-202",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-202.json",
  "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/202",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "202",
  "heading": "Intimation of arrestment schedule",
  "text": "(1) Section 70 of the 1987 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for the words “, if reasonably practicable,” substitute “ take all reasonably practicable steps to ”.\n(3) After subsection (4), insert—\n“(4A) An employer on whom an earnings arrestment schedule or a current maintenance arrestment schedule is served shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable—\n(a) intimate a copy of it to the debtor; and\n(b) notify the debtor of—\n(i) the date on which the first deduction is made; and\n(ii) the sum so deducted.\n(4B) An employer on whom a copy of a conjoined arrestment order is served shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the debtor of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (4A)(b) above.”.",
  "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/202",
    "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."
}