Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 48

Employer to make payments under order

48. Employer to make payments under order



(1) An employer to whom an attachment of earnings order is directed, being an
attachment of earnings order that is in force, shall, in respect of each
pay-day, if the net earnings of the defendant exceed the sum of-

   (a)  the protected earnings of the defendant; and

   (b)  so much of any amount by which the net earnings that became payable on
        any previous pay-day were less than the protected earnings in relation
        to that pay-day as has not been made good on any other previous
        pay-day-

pay, so far as that excess permits, to a registrar of the Court-

   (c)  the normal deduction in relation to that pay-day; and

   (d)  so much of the normal deduction in relation to any previous pay-day as
        was not paid on that pay-day and has not been paid on any other
        previous pay-day.

(2) A payment made by the employer under the last preceding subsection shall
be a valid discharge to him as against the defendant to the extent of the
amount paid.