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PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 3

Interest, etc., in respect of rent, rates, electricity and gas charges recoverable under Act.

3. Where it appears to the Master, on an application made in accordance with
[Judgment Enforcement Rules], that any person (in this Act referred to as a
"defaulter") is wilfully withholding any sum lawfully due by him or his spouse

(a)to any government department or public or local authority acting as such,
or to any funds mentioned in section 1(1), or to the Exchequer or Consolidated
Fund; or

(b)to any government department, public or local authority or other person
whatsoever in respect of

(i)any tax or duty or levy, or of any local or public rates (including water
rates [, regional rate and district rate]); or

(ii)any public services; or

<(iii)any rent due in respect of housing accommodation; or


<(iv)any instalment (whether by way of principal or interest, or partly of the one and partly of the other) due in respect of the purchase, conversion or improvement of housing accommodation;


Emergency enforcement in certain cases.

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