# The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act, 1958) Rules 1959, Article 19: Payments under attachment of earnings order after imprisonment imposed


(1) Where imprisonment or other detention has been imposed for the purpose of enforcing a maintenance order, the clerk of a magistrates' court to whom any payment under a related attachment of earnings order is to be made—
(a) in relation to such a payment shall be a person authorised to receive the said payment for the purposes of subsection (2) of section sixty-seven of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952 (which relates to release from custody and reduction of detention on payment);
(b) on receiving such a payment shall notify the person authorised for the purposes aforesaid by paragraph (1) of Rule 45 of the Magistrates' Courts Rules, 1952, of the sum received.
(2) Where a person receives notice of the receipt of a sum under the preceding paragraph of this Rule, he shall note the receipt of that sum on the warrant of commitment, if any, held by him.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1959/3/article/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1958-rules-1959/article-19
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