Section 87
Section 87
(1)
A person to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed shall, notwithstanding anything in any other written law but subject to the provisions of this Act, comply with the order or, if the order is subsequently varied under section 86, comply with the order as varied.
(2)
Where at any time when earnings are to be paid by a defendant, there are two or more attachment of earnings orders in force in relation to those earnings, for the purpose of complying with this Act, the employer shall —
(a)
carry out those orders according to the respective dates of their commencement irrespective of any later order until all earlier order has been dealt with; and
(b)
carry out any later order as if the earnings to which it relates are the balance of the defendant’s earnings after making any payment under this Act in pursuance of any earlier order.
(3)
An employer who, in pursuance of an attachment of earnings order, makes a payment under this Act, shall give to the defendant a statement in writing specifying the amount of that payment.
(4)
Where a person to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed has not been the defendant’s employer at any time during the period of one month immediately preceding the date he was served with the order, he shall forthwith give notice in writing to that effect in the prescribed form to the Court.
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