Small Debt (Scotland) Act 1924

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1924 c. 16
Year1924


Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1924

(14 & 15 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 16.

An Act to amend the law of Scotland relating to payment by instalments of sums decerned for in small debt courts, and to the arrestment of wages.

[14th July 1924]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Power to direct payment by instalments of sums found due in small debt courts in respect of arrears of rent.

1 Power to direct payment by instalments of sums found due in small debt courts in respect of arrears of rent.

1. The power conferred on the sheriff and the justices respectively by section eighteen of the Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1837, and section eleven of the Justices of the Peace Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1825, to direct that any sum found due shall be payable by instalments shall, in any case where such sum consists of arrears of rent, include power to annex to any such direction such condition as the sheriff or the justices may think fit with regard to the punctual payment of sums to become due by the defender to the pursuer in the future in respect of rent; and, in the event of the failure of the defender to comply with any such condition, it shall be competent for the sheriff or the justices to rescind or vary any such direction in such manner as he or they shall think fit.

S-2 Amendment of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 63.

2 Amendment of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 63.

2. The Wages Arrestment Limitation (Scotland) Act, 1870, shall have effect as if in section two thereof ‘thirty-five shillings’ were substituted for ‘twenty shillings.’

S-3 Short title.

3 Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as theSmall Debt (Scotland) Act, 1924.

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