Women’s Charter 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Enforcement of Maintenance Orders
91F. Additional powers of court to obtain information relating to attachment of earnings order
Last amended by an amending law of 2023.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
The court may, when considering whether to make, discharge or vary an attachment of earnings order in respect of a respondent —
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;
order the respondent to give to the court, within the period specified by the order, a statement signed by the respondent of —
the name, address and other contact details of the respondent’s employer, or of each of the respondent’s employers if he or she has more than one;
any particulars as to the respondent’s earnings specified by the order; and
any prescribed particulars specified by the order for the purpose of enabling the respondent to be identified by any employer of his or hers;
order any person appearing to the court to be an employer of the respondent to give to the court, within the period specified by the order, a statement signed by the person or on the person’s behalf of any particulars that may be so specified of all earnings of the respondent which fell to be paid by that person during the period specified by the order; and
order the Central Provident Fund Board to provide a statement to the applicant stating the following information, if the information is available to the Board based on records kept by the Board:
the name and address of the respondent’s employer or employers or, if the respondent is unemployed, the respondent’s last known employer or employers in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the order;
the contributions (if any) made by the respondent or his or her employer to the respondent’s Central Provident Fund account in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the order.
A document purporting to be a statement mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) is to be received in evidence in the proceedings before the court and is presumed to be such a statement without further proof unless the contrary is shown.
In subsection (1)(c), “employer” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953.
employer
“employer” means a person by whom, as a principal and not as an employee or agent, earnings fall to be paid to a respondent, and references to payment of earnings are to be construed accordingly;
Terms defined in this Act
applicant
Defined · s 76“applicant” means a person who makes a maintenance enforcement application;
attachment of earnings order
Defined · s 76“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;
earnings
Defined · s 76“earnings”, in relation to a respondent, means any sums payable to the respondent —(a)by way of wages or salary, including any fees, bonus, commission, overtime pay or other emoluments payable in addition to wages or salary by the person paying the wages or salary or payable under a contract of service; or(b)by way of pension, including an annuity in respect of past services, whether or not the services were rendered to the person paying the annuity, and including periodical payments by way of compensation for the loss, abolition or relinquishment, or any diminution in the emoluments, of any office or employment;
employer
Defined · s 76“employer” means a person by whom, as a principal and not as an employee or agent, earnings fall to be paid to a respondent, and references to payment of earnings are to be construed accordingly;
respondent
Defined · s 76“respondent”, in relation to a maintenance order or a maintenance enforcement application in respect of a maintenance order, means the person liable to make payments under the maintenance order;
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