Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 53

Where two or more orders are in force

53. Where two or more orders are in force



(1) Where on any occasion on which earnings become payable to a defendant
there are in force two or more attachment of earnings orders (whether made
under this Act or otherwise) in relation to those earnings, the person to whom
the orders are directed-

   (a)  shall comply with those orders according to the respective dates on
        which they took effect and shall disregard any order until an earlier
        order has been complied with; and

   (b)  shall comply with any order as if the earnings to which the order
        relates were the residue of the defendant's earnings after the making
        of any payment under any earlier order.

(2) For the purposes of this section an attachment of earnings order which has
been varied shall be deemed to have been made as so varied on the day upon
which the attachment of earnings order was made.