[Lump sum deductions: interim ordersN.I.
32E—(1) The Department may make an order under this Article if it appears to the Department that a person (referred to in this Article and Articles 32F to 32J as “the liable person”) has failed to pay an amount of child support maintenance and—
(a)an amount stands to the credit of an account held by the liable person with a deposit-taker; or
(b)an amount not within sub-paragraph (a) that is of a prescribed description is due or accruing to the liable person from another person (referred to in this Article and Articles 32F to 32J as the “third party”).
(2) An order under this Article—
(a)may not be made by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) in respect of an account of a prescribed description; an
(b)may be made by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) in respect of a joint account which is held by the liable person and one or more other persons, and which is not of a description prescribed under sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, if (but only if) regulations made by the Department so provide.
(3) The Department may by regulations make provision as to conditions that are to be disregarded in determining whether an amount is due or accruing to the liable person for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b).
(4) An order under this Article—
(a)shall be expressed to be directed at the deposit-taker or third party in question;
(b)if made by virtue of paragraph (1)(a), shall specify the account in respect of which it is made; and
(c)shall specify the amount of arrears of child support maintenance in respect of which the Department proposes to make an order under Article 32F.
(5) An order under this Article may specify an amount of arrears due under a maintenance calculation which is the subject of an appeal only if it appears to the Department—
(a)that liability for the amount would not be affected were the appeal to succeed; or
(b)where sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, that the making of an order under Article 32F in respect of the amount would nonetheless be fair in all the circumstances.
(6) The Department shall serve a copy of any order made under this Article on—
(a)the deposit-taker or third party at which it is directed;
(b)the liable person; and
(c)if the order is made in respect of a joint account, the other account-holders.
(7) An order under this Article shall come into force at the time at which it is served on the deposit-taker or third party at which it is directed.
(8) An order under this Article shall cease to be in force at the earliest of the following—
(a)the time at which the prescribed period ends;
(b)the time at which the order under this Article lapses or is discharged; and
(c)the time at which an order under Article 32F made in pursuance of the proposal specified in the order under this Article is served on the deposit-taker or third party at which that order is directed.
(9) Where regulations have been made under Article 29(3)(a), a person liable to pay an amount of child support maintenance is to be taken for the purposes of this Article to have failed to pay the amount unless it is paid to or through the person specified in, or by virtue of, the regulations for the case in question.]