JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 75 Persons employed under the Crown.

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JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 75

Persons employed under the Crown.

75.(1) The fact that an attachment of earnings order is made at the suit of
the Crown shall not prevent its operation at any time when the debtor is in
the employment of the Crown.

(2) Where a debtor is in the employment of the Crown and an
attachment of earnings order is made in respect of him, then for the purposes
of sections 73, 74 and 76 to 77D and Schedule 1A

(a)the chief officer for the time being of the government department, office
or other body in which the debtor is employed shall be treated as having the
debtor in his employment (any transfer of the debtor from one department,
office or body to another being treated as a change of employment); and

(b)any earnings paid by the Crown, a Minister of the Crown or a
government department, or out of the public revenue of the United Kingdom or
Northern Ireland, shall be treated as paid by the said chief officer.

(3) In accordance with section 73(3), the reference in subsection (2)(a) to
the department, office or other body in which the debtor is employed shall, in
the case of a debtor who is not employed for the purposes of, but whose
earnings are paid in the capacity of principal by, such a body, be construed
as a reference to the department, office or other body by which any earnings
of his are paid in that capacity.

(4) If any question arises, in proceedings for or arising out of an
attachment of earnings order, as to what department, office or other body is
concerned for the purposes of this section, or as to who for those purposes is
the chief officer thereof, the question shall be referred to and determined by
the Department of the Civil Service or, as the case may require, the Minister
for the Civil Service; but the Department or Minister shall not be under any
obligation to consider a reference under this subsection unless it is made by
the Office.

(5) A document purporting to set out a determination of the Department of the
Civil Service under subsection (4) and to be signed by an officer of that
Department, or to set out a determination of the Minister for the Civil
Service under that subsection and to be signed on behalf of the Minister
shall, in any such proceedings as are mentioned in that subsection, be
admissible in evidence and be deemed to contain an accurate statement of such
a determination unless the contrary is shown.

(6) In this section "government department" includes a department of the
Government of the United Kingdom.][

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JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 75