Paragraph 4 Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)

(1)

The Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 2 (principal definitions), in the definition of “maintenance order”—

(a)

after “any order” insert “ , decision, settlement or instrument ”;

(b)

for “such an order” substitute “ one ”;

(c)

after “discharged” insert “ or has otherwise ceased to operate ”.

(3)

In Schedule 1 (which lists maintenance orders to which that Act applies) after paragraph 14 M1 insert—

“14A
(1)
A decision, court settlement or authentic instrument which falls to be enforced by a magistrates' court by virtue of the Maintenance Regulation and the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011.
(2)
In this paragraph—
“the Maintenance Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 including as applied in relation to Denmark by virtue of the Agreement made on 19th October 2005 between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark;
“decision”, “court settlement” and “authentic instrument” have the meanings given by Article 2 of that Regulation.”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: Paragraph 14 was inserted by Article 5 of and paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to S.I.2001/3929.