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Administration of Justice Act 1970

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8Where the employer is required to comply with two or more attachment of earnings orders, and one or more (but not all) of those orders are made to secure either the payment of judgment debts or payments under an administration order, then on any pay-day the employer shall, for the purpose of complying with Part I of this Schedule—

(a)deal first with any order which is not made to secure the payment of a judgment debt or payments under an administration order, (complying with paragraph 7 above if there are two or more such orders); and

(b)deal thereafter with any order which is made to secure the payment of a judgment debt or payments under an administration order as if the earnings to which it relates were the residue of the debtor's earnings after the making of any deduction to comply with an order having priority by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph ; and

(c)if there are two or more orders to which sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph applies, comply with paragraph 7 above in respect of those orders.

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