Administrative costs of employer
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13.—(1) Where, on any pay-day, an employer makes a deduction from the debtor’s earnings in accordance with an attachment of earnings order, the employer may also deduct an additional amount not exceeding £1.00 in respect of administrative costs and such deduction may reduce the amount which the employer pays to the debtor on that pay-day below the protected earnings proportion.
(2) On each occasion that an employer deducts an additional amount in accordance with paragraph (1), the employer shall, as soon as is practicable, notify the debtor in writing of the total amount of deductions made and how the total amount was calculated.