If it appears to a magistrates' court by which a sum has been adjudged to be paid by a conviction that the offender has defaulted in the payment of that sum and that he is a person to whom earnings fall to be paid, the court may, after inquiring into his means under section 44 of this Act, make one or more attachment of earnings orders within the meaning of the M1Maintenance Orders Act 1958.

The provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of applying, with modifications, provisions of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 to attachment of earnings orders under this section and for the purpose of making a consequential amendment of that Act.