Criminal Justice Act, 1993

Payment of compensation to District Court clerks for transmission, and attachment of earnings orders.

7.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), payments under a compensation order or an order under section 6 (8) shall be made, for transmission to the injured party concerned, to such District Court clerk as may be determined from time to time by the court which made the order.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) and of securing compliance with compensation orders and orders under section 6 (8)

(a) subsections (2), (4), (5) and (6) of section 9 (which relates to the transmission of maintenance order payments through District Court clerks),

(b) Part III (which relates to attachment of earnings), and

(c) section 29 (which amends the Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1940 ),

of the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act, 1976 , shall apply to those orders with the following modifications and any other necessary modifications, that is to say:

(i) in the said subsections (2) and (4)—

(I) the references to payments shall be construed as including payments under a compensation order or an order under section 6 (8) to a District Court clerk pursuant to subsection (1), and

(II) the references to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as references to the injured party,

(ii) in the said Part III—

(I) in section 10—

(A) subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (1) (a) shall not apply,

(B) the reference to the District Court in subsection (1) (a) (iii) (I) shall be construed as a reference to a court, and

(C) in subsection (2), paragraph (a) shall be deleted and the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b):

“(b) in any other case, to the District Court clerk specified by the attachment of earnings order for transmission to the injured party concerned”,

(II) the references to an antecedent order shall be construed as references to a compensation order and an order under section 6 (8),

(III) the references to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as references to the injured party, and

(IV) the references to the maintenance debtor shall be construed as references to the convicted person or, in a case to which section 99 of the Children Act, 1908, applies, to his parent or guardian,

and

(iii) in the said section 29 the reference to a maintenance order shall be construed as including a reference to a compensation order and an order under section 6 (8).