Zambia
Maintenance Orders Act, 1960
Chapter 55
- Commenced on 26 August 1960
- [This is the version of this document at 31 December 1996.]
Part I – Preliminary
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act*2. Interpretation
Part II – Registration, enforcement and variation of certain maintenance orders
3. Application of Part II
4. Registration of orders
5. Enforcement of registered orders
6. Variation of orders registered in subordinate courts
7. Cancellation of registration
Part III – Attachment of earnings orders
8. Powers of courts to make orders attaching earnings of defaulters under maintenance orders
9. Powers of courts to make attachment of earnings orders in proceedings under other Acts
Without prejudice to the powers to make attachment of earnings orders conferred by the last foregoing section, where proceedings are brought in the High Court or a magistrate's court under section four of the Debtors Act (which authorises the committal to prison of persons refusing or neglecting to pay certain debts which they have had the means to pay) in respect of a default in making payments under a maintenance order, and it appears to the court that, at the date when the proceedings were begun, such an amount as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section eight was due under the maintenance order and unpaid and that the defendant is a person to whom earnings fall to be paid, then, subject to subsection (2) of that section, the court may, if it thinks fit, make an attachment of earnings order instead of making any other order to enforce the making of payments under the maintenance order.[Cap. 77]10. Restriction of issue of orders, etc., of commitment on making of attachment of earnings orders
Where an attachment of earnings order is made, no order or warrant of commitment shall be issued in consequence of any proceedings for the enforcement of the related maintenance order begun before the making of the attachment of earnings order.11. Variation and discharge, etc., of attachment of earnings orders
12. Liabilities of persons to whom attachment of earnings orders are directed
13. Powers of courts to obtain statements of earnings, etc.
14. Powers of courts to determine whether payments are earnings
15. Miscellaneous provisions as to payments under attachment of earnings orders
16. Application to earnings paid by the government, etc.
17. Offences
Part IV – Miscellaneous and supplemental
18. Special provisions for subordinate courts
19. Rules
For the purposes of this Act, rules may be made under the provisions of the High Court Act and of the Subordinate Courts Act.[Cap. 27; Cap. 28]History of this document
31 December 1996 this version
Consolidation
26 August 1960
Commenced