# The Protected Trust Deeds (Scotland) Regulations 2013, Regulation 13: Effect of protected status on diligence against earnings


(1) This regulation has effect where a trust deed has protected status.
(2) Any existing earnings arrestment, current maintenance arrestment or, subject to paragraph (3), conjoined arrestment order ceases to have effect on the date of protection.
(3) Any sum paid by the employer to the sheriff clerk under a conjoined arrestment order on a pay day occurring before the date of protection will be disbursed by the sheriff clerk under section 64 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 notwithstanding that the date of disbursement is after the date of protection.
(4) The execution of an earnings arrestment or the making of a conjoined arrestment order is not competent after the date of protection to enforce a debt in respect of which the creditor is entitled to make a claim under the trust deed.
(5) A deduction from earnings order under the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 is not competent after the date of protection to secure the payment of any amount due by the debtor under a maintenance calculation within the meaning of that Act in respect of which a claim could be made under the trust deed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2013/9780111021569/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-protected-trust-deeds-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-13
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