Section 33
Section 33
(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 Part, comply with the order or, if the order is subsequently varied under section 32 with the order as varied.
(2)
Where on any occasion on which earnings fall to be paid to a defendant there are in force two or more attachment of earnings orders relating to those earnings, then, for the purpose of complying with this Part, the employer shall —
(a)
deal with those orders according to the respective dates on which they came into force disregarding any later order until all earlier orders have been dealt with; and
(b)
deal with any later order as if the earnings to which it relates were the residue of the defendant’s earnings after the making of any payment under this Part in pursuance of any earlier order.
(3)
An employer who, in pursuance of an attachment of earnings order, makes a payment under this Part, shall give to the defendant a statement in writing specifying the amount of that payment.
(4)
A person to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed who, at the time when a copy of the order is served on him, has on no occasion during the period of one month immediately preceding that time been the defendant’s employer shall forthwith give notice in writing to that effect in the prescribed form to the court which made the order.
Married Women 28
Additional powers of court.