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Article 20 Enforcement of registered external orders

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, if an external order is registered in the Court of Session under article 16 or 17 above—

(a)

the Court of Session shall have, in relation to its enforcement, the same power,

(b)

proceedings for or with respect to its enforcement may be taken, and

(c)

proceedings for or with respect to any contravention of such an order (whether before or after such registration) may be taken,

as if the order had originally been made in the Court of Session.

(2)

The Court of Session may, additionally, for the purpose of—

(a)

assisting the achievement in Scotland of the purposes of an external order, or

(b)

assisting any receiver or other person directed by any such order to sell or otherwise dispose of property,

make such orders or do otherwise as seems to it appropriate.