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South Australia
Enforcement of Judgments (Garnishee Orders) Amendment
Bill 2014
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Enforcement
of Judgments Act 1991.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Enforcement of
Judgments Act 1991
3Amendment of section 6—Garnishee
orders
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Enforcement of Judgments (Garnishee Orders)
Amendment Act 2014.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Enforcement of Judgments
Act 1991
3—Amendment
of section 6—Garnishee orders
Section 6(2)—delete subsection (2) and substitute:
(2) The court may make an order under subsection (1) in relation to
money owing or accruing to the judgment debtor (including salary or wages), or
money of the judgment debtor, and may determine the extent to which such monies
are attached in its discretion and whether or not the judgment debtor or any
other person consents to the making of the order.
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
Section 6 of the Enforcement
of Judgments Act 1991 as amended by this Act applies in relation to
any application made under that section after the commencement of this Act
(regardless of whether the judgment debt to which the application relates was
incurred before or after the commencement of this Act).