Part 4Enforcement of judgments and orders

Attachment of earnings orders

91Attachment of earnings orders: deductions at fixed rates

1

Schedule 15 makes amendments to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c. 32).

2

Those amendments are about the basis on which periodical deductions are to be made under an attachment of earnings order.

3

In particular, they provide that deductions under certain orders are to be made in accordance with a fixed deductions scheme made by the Lord Chancellor (rather than in accordance with Part I of Schedule 3 to the 1971 Act).