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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-116",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1984/225",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984",
  "path": "rule/116",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Variation or discharge of attachment of earnings order by court of its own motion",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to a court of summary jurisdiction that the defendant is not in the employment of the person to whom the attachment of earnings order is directed and that the likelihood of the defendant entering the employment of any person is not such as to justify preserving the order, the court may, of its own motion, discharge the order.\n(2) Where a court of summary jurisdiction has made an attachment of earnings order and the related maintenance order has been discharged in whole or in part or reduced by operation of law, the court may, of its own motion, vary or discharge the attachment of earnings order.\n(3) Where a court of summary jurisdiction has made an attachment of earnings order which takes account of accrued arrears and those arrears are subsequently discharged, the court may, of its own motion, vary or discharge the order as appropriate.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:12.928261+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."
}