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JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 74

Compliance with order by employer.

74.(1) Where an attachment of earnings order has been made, the employer
shall, if he has been served with the order, comply with it; but he shall be
under no liability for non-compliance before seven days have elapsed since the
service.

(2) Where a person is served with an attachment of earnings order directed to
him and he has not the debtor in his employment, or the debtor subsequently
ceases to be in his employment, he shall (in either case), within ten days
from the date of service or, as the case may be, the cesser, give notice in
writing of that fact to the Office.

(3) Part II of Schedule 1A shall have effect with respect to the priority to
be accorded as between two or more attachment of earnings orders directed to a
person either by the Office and a court, or by a court, in respect of the same
debtor.

(4) On any occasion when the employer makes, in compliance with the order, a
deduction from the debtor's earnings

(a)he shall be entitled to deduct, in addition, [50p] or such other sum as may
be prescribed by rules towards his clerical and administrative costs; and

(b)he shall give to the debtor a statement in writing of the total amount of
the deduction.

(5) Any sum deducted by the employer from the debtor's earnings in compliance
with the order, but not yet paid to the Office, shall in the bankruptcy or
winding up of the employer be treated as money held by the employer on trust
for the Office.][

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