{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attachment-of-earnings-act-1971/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attachment-of-earnings-act-1971/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/32",
  "legislation_title": "Attachment of Earnings Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attachment-of-earnings-act-1971",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Attachment of earnings to secure payments under administration order.",
  "text": "(1) Where the county court makes an administration order in respect of a debtor’s estate, it may also make an attachment of earnings order to secure the payments required by the administration order.\n(2) At any time when an administration order is in force the county court may (with or without an application) make an attachment of earnings order to secure the payments required by the administration order, if it appears to the court that the debtor has failed to make any such payment.\n(3) The power of the county court under this section to make an attachment of earnings order to secure the payments required by an administration order shall, where the debtor is already subject to an attachment of earnings order to secure the payment of a judgment debt, include power to direct that the last-mentioned order shall take effect (with or without variation under section 9 of this Act) as an order to secure the payments required by the administration order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 25(3)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/32/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:08.042823+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}