The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act, 1958) Rules 1959

Payments under attachment of earnings order after imprisonment imposed

19.—(1) Where imprisonment or other detention has been imposed for the purpose of enforcing a maintenance order, the clerk of a magistrates' court to whom any payment under a related attachment of earnings order is to be made—

(a) in relation to such a payment shall be a person authorised to receive the said payment for the purposes of subsection (2) of section sixty-seven of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952 (which relates to release from custody and reduction of detention on payment);

(b) on receiving such a payment shall notify the person authorised for the purposes aforesaid by paragraph (1) of Rule 45 of the Magistrates' Courts Rules, 1952, of the sum received.

(2) Where a person receives notice of the receipt of a sum under the preceding paragraph of this Rule, he shall note the receipt of that sum on the warrant of commitment, if any, held by him.