(1) A maintenance creditor who fails to obtain a sum of money due under an attachment of earnings order, or the District Court clerk to whom the sum falls to be paid, may sue for the sum as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, if the failure to obtain the sum is caused by -

(a) a person failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 54(3) or (4), or 57, or an order under section 56 or 60(2), or

(b) a person, without reasonable excuse, giving a false or misleading statement under section 56(1) or notification under section 57.

(2) A person who gives to a court a statement pursuant to section 56 or a notification under section 57 that he or she knows to be false or misleading commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a class C fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(3) A person who contravenes section 54(5) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.