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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-arrangement-scheme-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "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) subject to regulation 34, shall make no charge of any kind to a debtor; and\n(b) subject to paragraph (2), may charge an administration fee to a creditor taking part in a debt payment programme.\n(2) An administration fee shall be no more than 5% of the sum due to be paid to a creditor in a distribution by the 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/16",
    "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."
}