Criminal Justice Act, 1993
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Payment of compensation to District Court clerks for transmission, and attachment of earnings orders. |
7.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), payments under a compensation order or an order under section 6 (8) shall be made, for transmission to the injured party concerned, to such District Court clerk as may be determined from time to time by the court which made the order. | |
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) and of securing compliance with compensation orders and orders under section 6 (8)— | ||
(a) subsections (2), (4), (5) and (6) of section 9 (which relates to the transmission of maintenance order payments through District Court clerks), | ||
(b) Part III (which relates to attachment of earnings), and | ||
(c) section 29 (which amends the Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1940 ), | ||
of the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act, 1976 , shall apply to those orders with the following modifications and any other necessary modifications, that is to say: | ||
(i) in the said subsections (2) and (4)— | ||
(I) the references to payments shall be construed as including payments under a compensation order or an order under section 6 (8) to a District Court clerk pursuant to subsection (1), and | ||
(II) the references to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as references to the injured party, | ||
(ii) in the said Part III— | ||
(I) in section 10— | ||
(A) subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (1) (a) shall not apply, | ||
(B) the reference to the District Court in subsection (1) (a) (iii) (I) shall be construed as a reference to a court, and | ||
(C) in subsection (2), paragraph (a) shall be deleted and the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b): | ||
“(b) in any other case, to the District Court clerk specified by the attachment of earnings order for transmission to the injured party concerned”, | ||
(II) the references to an antecedent order shall be construed as references to a compensation order and an order under section 6 (8), | ||
(III) the references to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as references to the injured party, and | ||
(IV) the references to the maintenance debtor shall be construed as references to the convicted person or, in a case to which section 99 of the Children Act, 1908, applies, to his parent or guardian, | ||
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(iii) in the said section 29 the reference to a maintenance order shall be construed as including a reference to a compensation order and an order under section 6 (8). |