Failure by debtor—maintenance ordersE+W
Rule 8—(1) An order made under section 23 (1) of the Act of 1971(1) for the attendance of the debtor at an adjourned hearing of an application for an attachment of earnings order to secure payments under a maintenance order shall—
(a)be served on the debtor personally not less than 5 days before the day fixed for the adjourned hearing; and
(b)direct that any payments made thereafter shall be paid into the court and not direct to the judgment creditor.
(2) An application by a debtor for the revocation of an order committing him to prison and, if he is already in custody, for his discharge under subsection (7) of the said section 23 shall be made to the judge or district judge in writing without notice to any other party showing the reasons for the debtor’s failure to attend the court or his refusal to be sworn or to give evidence, as the case may be, and containing an undertaking by the debtor to attend the court or to be sworn or to give evidence when next ordered or required to do so.
(3) The application shall, if the debtor has already been lodged in prison, be attested by the governor of the prison (or any other officer of the prison not below the rank of principal officer) and in any other case be made on witness statement or affidavit.
(4) Before dealing with the application the judge or district judge may, if he thinks fit, cause notice to be given to the judgment creditor that the application has been made and of a day and hour when he may attend and be heard.
1971 c. 32; section 23(1) was amended by the Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53), section 53(2).