{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-117.json",
  "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/117",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Temporary variation of protected earnings rate",
  "text": "(1) A court of summary jurisdiction which made the attachment of earnings order may, on a written application made by the defendant on the ground of a material change in the defendant’s resources and needs since the order was made or last varied, by order (hereinafter referred to as a temporary variation order) vary the attachment of earnings order for a period of not more than thirteen weeks by an increase of the protected earnings rate.\n(2) A temporary variation order shall be in Form 74.\n(3) The clerk of petty sessions shall cause a copy of any variation order to be served on the employer and shall give him notice if the temporary variation order is discharged and the clerk of petty sessions shall also send a copy to the person entitled to receive payments under the related maintenance order (whether directly or through an officer of any court).\n(4) Where an application for the variation or discharge of an attachment of earnings order is made to a magistrates’ court and there is in existence a temporary variation order in respect of the attachment of earnings order, the court may, of its own motion, discharge the temporary variation order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/117",
    "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."
}