{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-trust-deeds-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-trust-deeds-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Protected Trust Deeds (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-trust-deeds-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Remuneration payable to trustee",
  "text": "(1) The trustee is entitled to remuneration for work done in administering a trust deed.\n(2) Any debt due to a third party (being neither an employee or agent of the trustee) for work done on behalf of the trustee prior to the granting of the trust deed will not rank higher than any other creditor’s claim.\n(3) The trustee is entitled to recover from the debtor’s estate any audit fee charged by the Accountant under paragraph 1 or 1A of Schedule 5 to the Act in accordance with the rate specified in the Table of Fees in the Schedule to the Bankruptcy Fees (Scotland) Regulations 1993.\n(4) The trustee is entitled to charge a reasonable fee for the issue of a letter of discharge of the debtor which can be recovered out of the debtor’s estate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/486, as amended by S.I. 1999/752, S.S.I. 2007/220, S.S.I. 2008/5 and S.S.I. 2008[ ]."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/398",
      "affecting_title": "The Protected Trust Deeds (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/143/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:07:35.504125+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."
}