{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-120",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-120.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/120",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Method of making payment under attachment of earnings order",
  "text": "(1) A clerk of petty sessions to whom any payment under an attachment of earnings order is to be made shall notify the employer and the person entitled to receive payments under the related maintenance order of the hours during which, and the place at which, payments are, subject to the provisions of this Rule, to be made and received.\n(2) If an employer sends by post any payments under an attachment of earnings order to a clerk of petty sessions, he shall do so at his own risk and expense.\n(3) A clerk of petty sessions may send by post any payment under an attachment of earnings order to the person entitled to receive payments under the related maintenance order at the request and at the risk of that person.",
  "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/120",
    "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."
}