{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987/section-15C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987/section-15C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/18",
  "legislation_title": "Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debtors-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "section/15C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15C",
  "heading": "Diligence on the dependence to secure future or contingent debts",
  "text": "(1) It shall be competent for the court to grant warrant for diligence on the dependence where the sum concluded for is a future or contingent debt.\n(2) In this section and in sections 15D to 15M of this Act, the “court” means the court before which the action is depending.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A inserted (1.4.2008 except for the insertion of s. 15H(4), 22.4.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3), ss. 169, 227(3) (with s. 223); S.S.I. 2008/115, art. 3(1)(b)(i) (with arts. 4-6, 10, 15) (as amended: (23.2.2009) by S.S.I. 2009/67, art. 7; (31.1.2011) by S.S.I. 2011/31, art. 5(a); and (4.10.2014) by S.S.I. 2014/173, arts. 1(2), 3); S.S.I. 2009/67, art. 3(1)(c) (with arts. 4-6) (as amended (31.1.2011) by S.S.I. 2011/31, art. 5(b))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/18/section/15C",
    "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."
}