[70A Employer's duty to provide information] [Employers etc: duty to provide information]
Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (1987 c 18) | Legislation

[70A  Employer's duty to provide information] [Employers etc: duty to provide information]

°Ú(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Where an employer [This section applies where a person] receives, in relation to a debtor—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý an earnings arrestment schedule;

(b)ÌýÌýÌýÌý a current maintenance arrestment schedule; or

(c)ÌýÌýÌýÌý a copy of a conjoined arrestment order,

the employer shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, send to the creditor or, in the case of a conjoined arrestment order, the sheriff clerk, the information mentioned in subsection (3) below.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The employer shall, provided the debt has not been extinguished, send, on or as soon as is reasonably practicable after the dates mentioned in subsection (4) below, to the creditor or, as the case may be, the sheriff clerk the information mentioned in subsection (3) below.

[(1A)ÌýÌýÌýÌý If—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý the debtor is not employed

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