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348. Employer's obligations in relation to attachment of earnings order.

(1) Where an attachment of earnings order or an order varying it is made, the employer for the time being affected by it shall, where it has been served on him or her, comply with it but the employer shall be under no liability for non-compliance with the order before 10 days have elapsed since the service.

(2) Where an attachment of earnings order is served on any person and the liable relative is not in his or her employment or the liable relative subsequently ceases to be in his or her employment, that person shall (in either case) within 10 days from the date of service or, as the case may be, the cesser, give notice of that fact to the District Court.

(3) On any occasion when a person makes, in compliance with an attachment of earnings order, a deduction from a liable relative's earnings, the person shall give to the liable relative a written statement of the total amount of the deduction.

(4) The court registrar or court clerk specified by an attachment of earnings order shall

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