{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987/schedule-5/paragraph-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987/schedule-5/paragraph-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/18",
  "legislation_title": "Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs 26 to 29 below, there shall be chargeable against the debtor any expenses incurred—\n(a) in serving a notice under paragraph 3 above before entering a dwellinghouse for the purpose of executing a poinding;\n(b) in executing a poinding under paragraph 5 above;\n(c) in granting a receipt under sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 6 above for payment for redemption under sub-paragraph (4) thereof;\n(d) in granting a receipt under paragraph 15(3) above for payment for the redemption of any poinded article;\n(e) in making intimation, sending particulars of the arrangements for the sale to the sheriff clerk and giving public notice under paragraph 16 above;\n(f) in removing any poinded articles for sale;\n(g) in making arrangements for and conducting a sale;\n(h) where the arrangements for a sale have been cancelled under paragraph 17(4) above, in returning poinded articles to any premises from which they have been removed for sale;\n(j) in making a report of sale under paragraph 20 above;\n(k) in granting a receipt under paragraph 22(4) above for payment for the release from a poinding of any article which is owned in common;\n(l) in opening shut and lockfast places in the execution of the diligence;\n(m) by a solicitor in instructing a sheriff officer to take any of the steps specified in this sub-paragraph.\n(2) The Lord Advocate may by regulations add to, delete or vary any of the steps specified in sub-paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/18/schedule/5/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:44.895234+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."
}