Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

3.  “Attachable earnings”, in relation to a pay-day, are the earnings which remain payable to the debtor on that day after deduction by the employer of— N.I.

(a) income tax;

(b) primary Class 1 contributions under Part I of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 [1975 c.15] ;

[F1 (c) amounts deductible under any statutory provision, or in pursuance of a request in writing by the debtor, for the purposes of a superannuation scheme, namely any statutory provision, rules, deed or other instrument providing for the payment of annuities or lump sums—

(i) to the persons with respect to whom the instrument has effect on their retirement at a specified age or on becoming incapacitated at some earlier age, or

(ii) to the personal representatives or the [F2 surviving spouses, surviving civil partners,] relatives or dependants of such persons on their death or otherwise,

whether with or without any further or other benefits.]

F1 1988 NI 7

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(c)(ii) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 139 (with regs. 6-9)