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SUPREME COURT RULES 1987 - REG 72.12

Two or more orders in force

Where earnings become payable to a judgment debtor and there are in force 2 or more attachment of earnings orders, whether made under this Chapter or otherwise, in relation to those earnings, the person to whom the orders are directed shall comply with:

        (a)     those orders according to the respective dates on which they took effect and shall disregard an order until the earlier order has been complied with; and

        (b)     an order as if the earnings to which the order relates were the residue of the earnings of the judgment debtor after the making of a payment under an earlier order.



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