{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/82",
  "legislation_title": "The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Debt Advice and Information Pack",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the time prescribed for the purposes of section 5(2D) of the 1985 Act is not less than 14 days before the presentation of the petition and not more than, 12 weeks before the presentation of the petition.\n(2) The requirement to provide the debtor with a debt advice and information package in section 5(2D) of the 1985 Act does not apply where it is averred that the address of the debtor is not known.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 5(2D) of the 1985 Act was inserted by the Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3), section 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/82/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:08:21.453554+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."
}