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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Enforcement of Fines etc. (Diligence) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 22nd April 2009.
(2) In these Regulations “FEO” means a fines enforcement officer.
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Where an FEO executes an arrestment of funds standing in accounts held at any bank or other financial institution, the application of the following provisions of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 shall be modified–
(a) section 73D (debt advice and information) shall have no application;
(b) section 73G(2) (arrestee’s duty of disclosure), so as to impose on the arrestee the duty to send to an FEO the form of disclosure by the arrestee, as prescribed by Schedule 8 to the Diligence (Scotland) Regulations 2009; and
(c) section 73J(2) (automatic release of arrested funds), so as to provide that the arrestee shall or may, as the case may be, release to an FEO, from the attached funds, a sum calculated in accordance with section 73K.
KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
12th March 2009