The Collection of Fines (Final Scheme) Order 2006

Amendments to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971

43.  In section 17 (consolidated attachment orders)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) after “those sections” insert “or under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, and the powers of a fines officer under that Schedule,”;

(ii) after “section 1(3)” insert “of this Act and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003”; and

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) in paragraph (a) after “another” insert “or (where Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 applies) from a court or a fines officer, as the case may be, acting in one local justice area, to a court or a fines officer, as the case may be, acting in another local justice area”;

(ii) for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) for enabling a court or a fines officer, as the case may be, to which or to whom any order, proceedings or functions have been transferred under the rules to vary or discharge an attachment of earnings order made by another court or fines officer and to replace it (if the court, or fines officer as the case may be, thinks fit) with a consolidated attachment order;”;

(iii) in paragraph (c) for “of its” substitute “or a fines officer, as the case may be, of its or his”.