{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987-amendment-regulations-2000/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2000/189",
  "legislation_title": "The Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (“the Act”) so as to–\n(a) increase from £10,000 to £25,000 the amount of money prescribed in section 1(5)(a) of the Act, which is the limit to which it is competent for a court to make a time to pay direction (regulation 2);\n(b) increase from £10,000 to £25,000 the amount of money prescribed in section 5(4)(a) of the Act, which is the limit to which it is competent for a sheriff to make a time to pay order (regulation 2);\n(c) increase from £500 to £1,000 the aggregate values of articles exempt from poinding in terms of section 16(1)(b) and (d) of and paragraph 1(1)(b) and (d) of Schedule 5 to the Act (regulation 3(1));\n(d) add to the list of articles in section 16(2) of and paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5 to the Act that shall be exempt for poinding in terms of those provisions (regulation 3(2)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/189/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:50:30.874005+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."
}