Amendments to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971

40.  In section 9 (variation, lapse and discharge of orders)—

(a) in subsection (1), after “The court” insert “, or where an attachment of earnings order is made under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, the court or the fines officer as the case may be,”;

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) in paragraph (a) after “order” insert “made under this Act”, and

(ii) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) as to the circumstances in which an attachment of earnings order made under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003 may be varied or discharged by the court or the fines officer of its or his own motion;”; and

(c) in subsection (4)—

(i) after “until the court” insert “, or where the order was made under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, unless and until the court or the fines officer as the case may be,”; and

(ii) after “to the court” insert “or the fines officer (as the case may be)”.