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JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 77C

Meaning of ""earnings'' and ""employer''.

77C.(1) For the purposes of sections 73 to 77B, section 77D and Schedule 1A,
but subject to subsection (2), "earnings" are any sums payable to a person

(a)by way of wages or salary (including any fees, bonus, commission, overtime
pay or other emoluments payable in addition to wages or salary or payable
under a contract of service);

(b)by way of pension (including an annuity in respect of past services,
whether or not rendered to the person paying the annuity, and including
periodical payments by way of compensation for the loss, abolition or
relinquishment, or diminution in the emoluments, of any office or employment).

(2) The following shall not be treated as earnings

(a)sums payable by any public department of a territory outside the United
Kingdom;

(b)pay or allowances payable to the debtor as a member of Her Majesty's
forces;

(c)pension, allowances or benefit payable under any of the following statutory
provisions relating to social security

(i)the Family Income Supplements Act (Northern Ireland) 1971;

(ii)the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Acts 1975 to 1977;

<(iii)the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Northern Ireland Old Cases) Act 1975;


<(iv)the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975;


(v)the Supplementary Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;

(d)guaranteed minimum pension within the meaning of the Social Security
Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 provided by an occupational pension
scheme;

(e)pension or allowances payable in respect of disablement or disability;

(f)wages such as are mentioned in section 11(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act
1970 (wages due or accruing to a seaman employed in a ship registered in the
United Kingdom), other than wages payable to a person as a seaman of a fishing
vessel.

(3) In subsection (2)(f), expressions used in the Merchant Shipping Act 1894
have the same meaning as in that Act.

(4) In sections 73 to 77B, section 77D and Schedule 1A "the employer" means
the person who is required by an attachment of earnings order to make
deductions from earnings paid by him to the debtor.]

Power of courts to make attachment of earnings orders.

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