{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/226",
  "legislation_title": "Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the attachment of earnings order has been made—\n(a) by the Office, or\n(b) by a court otherwise than to secure payments under a maintenance order.\n(2) The employer shall on any pay-day—\n(a) if the attachable earnings exceed the protected earnings, deduct from the attachable earnings the amount of the excess or the normal deduction, whichever is the less;\n(b) make no deduction if the attachable earnings are equal to, or less than, the protected earnings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/226/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:20.705084+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."
}