Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1930

Attachment of pension or income.

13.—(1) Where any person by whom any weekly or other sum is payable under an affiliation order or under this Act is in receipt of any pension or income which is capable of being attached and such person makes default in the payment of such weekly or other sum or any part thereof a Justice of the District Court may upon the application of the person or body to whom such sum or the part thereof in respect of which default is made is payable and upon being satisfied of such default may make an order (in this section referred to as an attachment order) directing the payment out of such pension or income to the person named in such order of a sum equal in amount to the amount of the weekly or other sum or the part thereof in respect of which default has been made or, in the case of a continuing default, the payment out of such pension or income of such weekly or other sum as such Justice shall specify in that behalf in such order.

(2) An attachment order shall be sufficient authority to the person by whom the pension or income to which such order relates is payable to make the payment specified therein and the receipt of the person to whom such payment is made in pursuance of such order shall to the extent of such payments be a good discharge for such pension or income as against the person entitled to the same.