SCHEDULE 14Minor and consequential amendments

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In section 23 of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (arrears of contributions secured over interest in land in Scotland)—

a

in subsection (1)(b)—

i

after the word “Scotland” (and within the parentheses) there shall be inserted “ “an interest in land” meaning land or,”; and

ii

after the words “1970” (and within the parentheses) there shall be inserted “, a real right in land”; and

b

for subsection (4) there shall be substituted—

4

Where an interest in land (as defined in subsection (1)(b) above) over which a charging order is made is an interest to which the debtor does not have a completed title, the order shall be as valid as if the debtor had such title.