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343E. Attachment of earnings.

(1) A notice of attachment may relate to any amount of money due by the relevant person to the overpaid person as emoluments under a contract of service.

(2) A notice of attachment referred to in subsection (1) may provide, as the Minister considers appropriate, for the payment by the relevant person of an amount out of the emoluments, over a period specified in the notice, by the periodical deductions of such amounts as are specified in the notice.

(3) The Minister, in determining the rate of periodical deductions under subsection (2), and in addition to considering the matters under section 343C shall not -

(a) without the prior written agreement of the overpaid person, determine a rate that exceeds 15 per cent of the net weekly emoluments to which the person concerned is or becomes entitled, or

(b) determine a rate that exceeds an amount that will cause the overpaid person to become entitled to claim for supplementary welfare allowance under section 196.

(4) Where the Minister gives

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