PART III DILIGENCE AGAINST EARNINGS
Supplementary provisions
F170 Execution and intimation of copies.
1
When an officer of court serves an earnings arrestment schedule or a current maintenance arrestment schedule on the employer of the debtor he shall F2take all reasonably practicable steps to intimate a copy of the schedule to the debtor.
2
Failure to intimate a copy of the schedule to the debtor shall not by itself render the arrestment invalid.
3
Service of any such schedule shall be by registered or recorded delivery letter or, if such a letter cannot be delivered, by any other competent mode of service.
4
The certificate of execution of an earnings arrestment or a current maintenance arrestment shall be signed by the officer of court who effected the service.
F34A
An employer on whom an earnings arrestment schedule or a current maintenance arrestment schedule is served shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable—
a
intimate a copy of it to the debtor; and
b
notify the debtor of—
i
the date on which the first deduction is made; and
ii
the sum so deducted.
4B
An employer on whom a copy of a conjoined arrestment order is served shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the debtor of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (4A)(b) above.
5
Section 17(1) of this Act shall apply to the service of an earnings arrestment schedule, a current maintenance arrestment schedule or a conjoined arrestment order as it applies to the execution of a poinding except where such service is by post.