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Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1966
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Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1966
1966 CHAPTER 19
An Act to exempt from arrestment on the dependence of an action sums falling to be paid by way of wages, salary or other earnings or by way of pension, to abolish the exemption from arrestment in execution of certain earnings payable by the Crown, and to provide for the variation from time to time of the amount of wages excepted from arrestment under the Wages Arrestment Limitation (Scotland) Act 1870; to amend section 5 of the Adoption Act 1958, and to provide in Scotland for the succession of an adopted person to the estate of his natural parent in certain circumstances; to amend section 5 of the Trusts (Scotland) Act 1961; to provide for the admission in evidence of certain documents in civil proceedings; to confer jurisdiction on the sheriff court to vary or recall certain orders of the Court of Session in respect of maintenance, custody and welfare of children; to provide for the extension of certain time limits in appeals under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954; and to provide that acts of adjournal and acts of sederunt shall be statutory instruments.
[3rd August 1966]X1
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X1The text of ss. 1–3, 11(1)(3) was taken from S.I.F. Group 45:2 (Enforcement: Scotland), ss. 5, 11, Sch. from S.I.F. Group 116:2 (Succession: Confirmation, Scotland), ss. 6, 11 from S.I.F. Group 128 (Trusts and Liferents, Scotland), ss. 8, 11, Sch. from S.I.F. Group 49:3 (Family Law: Matrimonial Proceedings) and ss. 10, 11(1)(3) from S.I.F. Group 115:2 (Statutes and Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments); provisions omitted from S.I.F. have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary.
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C1Words of enactment omitted by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 c. 62, s. 3
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