{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:449","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Attachment of Salary","number":"449","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/449/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VII — ATTACHMENT AND EXECUTION OF DECREES","title":"TITLE II — MODES OF EXECUTION","chapter":"Chapter 2. — Attachment of Property"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where the property to be attached is the salary of an employee the court may order that the amount due be withheld from such salary either in one payment or by monthly installments, as the court may direct.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/449/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":234,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/234/?article=449&paragraph=p1#article-449-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"A copy of an order made under sub-Article (1) shall be sent to the employer of the judgment-debtor and the amount due under the order, or the monthly installments, as the case may be, shall thereupon be withheld from the judgment-debtor’s salary and remitted to the court.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/449/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":235,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/235/?article=449&paragraph=p2#article-449-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Where the attachable proportion of the judgment-debtor’s salary is already being withheld and remitted to a court in pursuance to a previous and unsatisfied order of attachment, the employer of the judgment-debtor shall forthwith return the subsequent order to the court issuing it with a full statement of all the particulars of the existing attachment.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/449/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":235,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/235/?article=449&paragraph=p3#article-449-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}