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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-7/chapter-6/article-7n34",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018",
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  "path": "part/7/chapter/6/article/7n34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7.34",
  "heading": "Small debts",
  "text": "(1) A creditor is deemed to have submitted a claim for the purposes of adjudication of entitlement to and payment of a dividend but not otherwise where—\n(a) the debt is a small debt;\n(b) notice has been delivered to the creditor under rule 7.35; and\n(c) the creditor has not advised the liquidator that the debt is incorrect or not owed in response to the notice.\n(2) In this rule “small debt” means a debt (being the total amount owed to a creditor) which does not exceed £1,000 (which amount is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 13A of schedule 8 of the Act and paragraph 18A of schedule 9 of the Act ).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 13A is prospectively inserted into schedule 8 by section 131 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26) (“the 2015 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Paragraph 18A is prospectively inserted into schedule 9 by section 132 of the 2015 Act."
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  "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."
}