55Garnishee order

55 Garnishee order

55 Garnishee order

(1) The Chief Commissioner may make an order (a garnishee order) that all debts due and accruing to a debtor from any person specified in the order are attached for the purposes of satisfying the State debt payable by the debtor (including an order expressed to be for the continuous attachment of the wage or salary of the debtor).

(2) A garnishee order operates as a garnishee order made by the Local Court under Part 8 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 and, for that purpose—

(a) the Chief Commissioner is taken to be the judgment creditor, and

(b) an instalment order under section 107 of that Act includes an order under this Act by the Chief Commissioner for the payment of a State debt by instalments.

(3) A garnishee order is sufficiently served on a corporation if the order is transmitted electronically to the corporation and received through an information system designated by or on behalf of the corporation as the system to be used for the purpose of receiving the order.

(4) An order served electronically pursuant to subsection (3)—

(a) if served after 5 pm on any day—is taken (subject to paragraph (b)) to have been served on the next day, and

(b) if served on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday—is taken to have been served on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

(5) A garnishee order remains in force until revoked under this Act.