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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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7. Compliance with order by employer

(1) Where an attachment of earnings order has been made, the employer shall, if he or she has been served with the order, comply with it; but he or she shall be under no liability for non-compliance before 14 days have elapsed since the service.

(2) Where a person is served with an attachment of earnings order directed to him or her and he or she does not have the debtor in his or her employment, or the debtor subsequently ceases to be in his or her employment he or she shall, in either case, within 10 days from the date of service or, as the case may be, the cesser, give notice of that fact in writing to the Court.

(3) Part II of Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to the priority to be accorded where 2 or more attachment of earnings orders have been directed to an employer in respect of the same debtor.

(4) On any occasion when the employer makes, in compliance with the order, a deduction from the debtor's earnings he or she shall give to the debtor a statement in writing of the total amount of the deduction.

7. Compliance with order by employer

2. Interpretation

3. References to debtor's needs

4. Power of court to attach earnings

5. Application for attachment of earnings order

6. Contents and effect of attachment of earnings order

8. Inter-relation with order or issue of warrant of commitment

9. Variation, lapse and discharge of orders

10. Normal deduction rate to be reduced in certain cases

11. Termination of employer's liability

12. Application of sums received by Collecting Officer

13. Power of Court to obtain statement of earnings

14. Obligation of debtor and his employers to notify changes of employment and earnings

15. Power of court to determine whether particular payments are earnings

16. Certain applications to be made by Collecting Officer on request only

17. Costs on application under section 15

18. Persons employed by the State

19. Failure of debtor to attend hearing of application

21. General penalty clause

22. Act binds the Crown

23. Forms in Schedule 5

24. Amendment of Schedules