Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

Employer's obligations in relation to attachment of earnings order.

[1993 s288(1)]

348.—(1) Where an attachment of earnings order or an order varying it is made, the employer for the time being affected by it shall, where it has been served on him or her, comply with it but the employer shall be under no liability for non-compliance with the order before 10 days have elapsed since the service.

[1993 s288(2)]

(2) Where an attachment of earnings order is served on any person and the liable relative is not in his or her employment or the liable relative subsequently ceases to be in his or her employment, that person shall (in either case) within 10 days from the date of service or, as the case may be, the cesser, give notice of that fact to the District Court.

[1993 s288(3)]

(3) On any occasion when a person makes, in compliance with an attachment of earnings order, a deduction from a liable relative's earnings, the person shall give to the liable relative a written statement of the total amount of the deduction.

[1993 s288(4)]

(4) The court registrar or court clerk specified by an attachment of earnings order shall cause the order to be served on the employer to whom it is directed and on any subsequent employer of the liable relative concerned of whom the registrar or clerk so specified becomes aware and service may be effected by leaving the order or a copy of the order at, or sending the order or a copy of the order by registered prepaid post to, the residence or place of business in the State of the person to be served.