# The Executry Practitioners (Scotland) Regulations 1997, Regulation 17: Avoidance of delay


(1) An executry practitioner providing executry services for a client shall, subject to the instructions of that client, provide those services with reasonable expedition.
(2) Subject to regulation 20(c), an executry practitioner providing executry services for a client shall not delay in completing the executry services or refuse to complete them on the ground that any fee due to the executry practitioner in respect of those services remains unpaid.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/317/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/executry-practitioners-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-17
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