Article 9

At the end of paragraph (1) there shall be added the words “and the particulars of the defendant required to be given in the first paragraph of that form shall, so far as they are known to the Court, be the prescribed particulars for the purposes of section 6(3) of the Act of 1971.”

The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (5):—

“(5)

The Court shall cause a certified copy of an attachment of earnings order and of any order varying or discharging such an order to be sent to the appropriate county court registrar and, in the case of an attachment of earnings order or an order varying such an order, the copy shall be indorsed with a statement of the amount of the arrears, if any, due and unpaid under the related maintenance order at the time when the attachment of earnings order was made or varied.

In this paragraph and in rule 16(2) “the appropriate county court registrar” means—

(a)

the registrar of the county court within the district of which the debtor resides, and

(b)

any registrar of another county court who is specified in the attachment of earnings order as the collecting officer for the purposes of the order or who has given notice to the proper officer of proceedings taken in that court for the enforcement of the related maintenance order. ”