60 Conjoined arrestment orders: general provision
Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (1987 c 18) | Legislation

Conjoined Arrestment Orders

60  Conjoined arrestment orders: general provision

(1)     This section applies where at the date of an application under subsection (2) below—

(a)     there is in effect against the earnings of a debtor in the hands of a single employer an earnings arrestment or a current maintenance arrestment or (under section 58 of this Act) both; and

(b)     a creditor, who may be a creditor already enforcing a debt by an arrestment mentioned above, (referred to in this section as "a qualified creditor") would be entitled, but for section 59(1) or (2) of this Act, to enforce his debt by executing an earnings arrestment or a current maintenance arrestment.

(2)     Subject to subsection (4) below, where this section applies the sheriff, on an application made by a qualified creditor, shall make a conjoined arrestment order.

(3)     A conjoined arrestment order shall—

(a)     recall any arrestment mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above so that it shall cease to have effect on the coming into

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