10CEnforcement of orders for payment of money

10C Enforcement of orders for payment of money

10C Enforcement of orders for payment of money

(1) Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of any order for the payment of money under this Part shall give notice of any change of address to such person (if any) as may be specified in the order, and any person failing without reasonable excuse to give such a notice shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 0.5 penalty unit.

(2) Where any order for the payment of money has been made in exercise of the powers contained in this Part, the court making the order shall, in addition to any other powers for enforcing compliance with the order, have power in any case where there is any pension or income payable to the person against whom the order is made and capable of being attached, after giving the person by whom the pension or income is payable an opportunity of being heard, to order that such part as the court may think fit of any such pension or income be attached and paid to the person named by the court, and such further order shall be an authority to the person by whom such pension or income is payable to make the payments so ordered, and the receipt of the person to whom the payment is ordered to be made shall be a good discharge to the person by whom the pension or income is payable.

s 10C: Ins 1934 No 20, sec 2 (b). Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.