{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Charges by a payments distributor",
  "text": "(1) In the exercise of a function under the Act or these Regulations, a payments distributor—\n(a) must make no charge of any kind to a debtor for payments distribution; ...\n(b) in the case of a debt payment programme for an individual, must charge an administration fee to a creditor taking part in a debt payment programme in accordance with paragraph (2); and\n(c) in the case of a debt payment programme for a legal person, trust or unincorporated body of persons, may charge an administration fee to a creditor taking part in a debt payment programme in accordance with paragraph (3).\n(2) In the case of a debt payment programme for an individual, the administration fee, including any VAT incurred, is 20% of the sum due to be paid to a creditor in a distribution by the distributor.\n(3) In the case of a debt payment programme for a legal person, trust or unincorporated body of persons, the administration fee, including any VAT incurred, must be no more than 8% of the sum due to be paid to a creditor in a distribution by the distributor.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(1)(a) omitted (4.11.2019) by virtue of The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/315), regs. 1, 4(6)(a)(i) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(1)(b)(c) substituted for reg. 17(1)(b) (4.11.2019) by The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/315), regs. 1, 4(6)(a)(ii) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17(2)(3) substituted for reg. 17(2) (4.11.2019) by The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/315), regs. 1, 4(6)(b) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.7.2011, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/141/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:50:24.069321+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."
}