{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2004/0110626400",
  "legislation_title": "The Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Functions and duty of a payments distributor",
  "text": "(1) It is a function of a payments distributor–\n(a) to assist a money adviser with, and advise on, payments distribution;\n(b) to distribute sums received by the distributor in accordance with the debt payment programme, or any agreement for voluntary payment of a continuing liability;\n(c) to provide payment and distribution reports to money advisers, and to creditors;\n(d) subject to paragraph (2), to provide a facility for voluntary payment by a debtor of a continuing liability; and\n(e) to provide information to the DAS administrator about the exercise of a function of a payments distributor.\n(2) Where a payments distributor is not providing the facility specified in paragraph (1)(d), the distributor may elect in respect of each period of approval under regulation 13(5), or part of a period if an election is made other than at the start of the period, whether or not to provide that facility.\n(3) A payments distributor shall have regard to guidance issued by the DAS administrator when carrying out a function of a distributor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2004/0110626400/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:42.838477+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."
}