Women’s Charter 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Maintenance of Wife, Incapacitated Husband and Children
71. Court’s power to make attachment of earnings order for maintenance under section 69 or 70, etc.
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A court may, when making a maintenance order under section 69 or 70 or at any time thereafter, if the court considers just, make an attachment of earnings order under this section to secure payment of any maintenance that will become payable under the maintenance order.
maintenance order
“maintenance order” means —(a)an order for the payment of monthly sums or a lump sum for the maintenance of a wife, an incapacitated husband or a child made or deemed to be made by a court under Part 8;(b)an order for the payment of monthly or periodical sums or a lump sum by way of maintenance or alimony to a wife or former wife or an incapacitated husband or incapacitated former husband, or by way of maintenance for the benefit of any child, under Part 10;(c)an order for maintenance made by the Syariah Court under the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966; or(d)a maintenance order as defined in section 2 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975;
A Family Court may make an attachment of earnings order under this section to secure payments payable under a maintenance order made under section 69 or 70 by the General Division of the High Court.
attachment of earnings order
“attachment of earnings order” means an order by a court requiring the person to whom the order in question is directed (being a person appearing to the court to be a respondent’s employer) to make payments in satisfaction of the order out of the earnings falling to be paid to the respondent;
No application for an attachment of earnings order under subsection (1) or (2) in respect of a maintenance order, and no application to vary or discharge such an attachment of earnings order, may be made if proceedings under Part 9 for the enforcement of the same maintenance order are pending.
Sections 91C to 91K apply, with the necessary modifications, to an attachment of earnings order under subsection (1) or (2).
In this section, “attachment of earnings order” has the meaning given by section 76(1).