Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 Explanatory Notes

Section 80 – Renaming of the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications

238.This section provides that, following from the abolition of adjudication for debt, the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudication is renamed the Register of Inhibitions. That register has had several titles over the years and various enactments make reference to it by those titles. Subsection (2) provides that all references in those enactments to the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications, the General Register of Inhibitions or the Register of Adjudication are to be read as references to the Register of Inhibitions.

239.Adjudication in security (which is available to a creditor seeking to enforce a future or contingent debt) is abolished by section 172 of the Act (see paragraph 512512 below).

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