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Enforcement of orders for payment of money

Cap. 173, s. 24 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of any order for the payment of money under this Act, shall give notice of any change of address within fourteen days to such person, if any, as may be specified to receive the money in the order, and any person failing without reasonable excuse to give such a notice commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars. (2) Subject to any other law to the contrary, where a maintenance order has been made the court shall, in addition to any other powers for enforcing compliance with the order, have power, in any case where there is any pension or income payable to the person against whom the order is made and capable of being attached, after giving the person by whom the pension or income is payable an opportunity of being heard, to order that such part as the court may think fit of any such pension or income be attached and paid to the person named by the court. (3) An order under subsection (2) of this section, shall be an authority to the person by whom the pension or income is payable to make the payment so ordered, and the receipt of the person to whom the payment is ordered to be made shall be a 23 good discharge to the person by whom the pension or income is payable.
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