Wages Arrestment Limitation (Scotland) Act 1870
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1870 c. 63 |
| Year | 1870 |
Wages Arrestment Limitation (Scotland) Act
(33 & 34 Vict.) CHAP. 63.
An Act to limit Wages Arrestment in Scotland.
[9th August 1870]
W HEREAS great evils have arisen through the arrestment of wages of labourers, manufacturers, artificers, and other workpeople, and also by the provisions relating to such arrestment in the Act first of Victoria, chapter forty-one, and it is desirable to remedy these evils:
Be it hereby enacted by the Queen'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:
1 Wages of artificer not to be liable to arrestment for debts after 1 Jan. 1871.
1. That from and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one the wages of all labourers, farm servants, manufacturers, artificers, and workpeople shall cease to be liable to arrestment for debts contracted subsequent to the passing of this Act, save as herein-after excepted.
2 Limitation of liability of wages to arrestment.
2. If the amount of wages earned exceeds twenty shillings per week, any surplus above that amount shall still be liable to arrestment as before the passing of this Act, but the expense or cost of any such arrestment shall not be chargeable against the debtor unless in virtue of such arrestment the arresting creditor shall recover a sum larger than the amount of such expense or cost.
3 As to debts incurred before passing of Act.
3. No arrestment of wages shall hereafter attach more than the amount of any surplus above twenty shillings per week, unless it shall be stated on the face of the arrestment or indorsed thereon that the debt in respect of which it is used was incurred prior to the passing of this Act; and such statement may be made by a memorandum on the arrestment subscribed by the officer executing the same.
4 Act not to affect decrees for alimentary allowances or for rates and taxes.
4. This Act shall in no way affect arrestments in virtue of decrees for alimentary allowances or payments, or for rates and taxes imposed by law; but every arrestment used after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one for such...
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