• Specific Year
    Any

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 97 Effect of garnishee etc. order

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 97

Effect of garnishee etc. order

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an instalment is being paid, or has been paid, to the credit of an account; and

  (b)   a court order in the nature of a garnishee order comes into force in relation to the account;

the court order does not apply to the saved amount (if any) in the account.

  (2)   The saved amount is worked out as follows:

Method statement

Step 1.   Work out the total amount of the instalments that have been paid to the credit of the account during the 4 week period immediately before the court order came into force.

Step 2.   Subtract from the step 1 amount the total amount withdrawn from the account during the same 4 week period: the result is the saved amount .