Amendments to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971
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39. In section 8 (interrelation with alternative remedies open to creditors), for subsection (5) substitute—
“(5) An attachment of earnings order made to secure—
(a)any payment mentioned in section 1(3)(c) of this Act; or
(b)the payment of any sum mentioned in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003,
shall cease to have effect on the issue of a warrant committing the debtor to prison for default in making that payment.”