63 Sum payable by employer under conjoined arrestment order
Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (1987 c 18) | Legislation

63  Sum payable by employer under conjoined arrestment order

(1)     Subject to section 69(3) of this Act, this section shall have effect for the purpose of determining the sum to be deducted on a pay-day and paid to the sheriff clerk under a conjoined arrestment order.

(2)     Where all the debts are ordinary debts, the said sum shall be the sum which the employer would pay under section 47(1) of this Act if the debts were one debt being enforced on the pay-day by an earnings arrestment.

(3)     Where all the debts are current maintenance, the sum shall be whichever is the lesser of the amounts mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (4) below, less any sum which the debtor is entitled to deduct under any enactment in respect of income tax.

(4)     The amounts referred to in subsection (3) above are—

(a)     the aggregate of the sums arrived at by multiplying each of the

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