Singapore legislation
Clause 74
Clause 74
Duty of defendant and employer to comply with attachment of earnings order
(1)
A person to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed shall, notwithstanding anything in any other written law but subject to the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance, comply with the order or, if the order is subsequently varied under the provisions of section 73 of this Ordinance, with the order as so varied.
(2)
Where on any occasion on which earnings fall to be paid to a defendant there are in force two or more attachment of earnings orders relating to those earnings, then, for the purpose of complying with this Part of this Ordinance, the employer shall —
deal with those orders according to the respective dates on which they came into force disregarding any later order until all earlier orders have been dealt with; and
deal with any later order as if the earnings to which it relates were the residue of the defendant’s earnings after the making of any payment under this Part of this Ordinance in pursuance of any earlier order.
(3)
An employer who, in pursuance of an attachment of earnings order, makes a payment under this Part of this Ordinance, shall give to the defendant a statement in writing specifying the amount of that payment.
(4)
A person to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed who, at the time when a copy of the order is served on him, has on no occasion during the period of one month immediately preceding that time been the defendant’s employer shall forthwith give notice in writing to that effect in the prescribed form to the court which made the order.