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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Collection of Fines (Final Scheme) Order 2006 No. 1737
11. After paragraph 7 insert—
7A.—(1) This paragraph applies if the sum due consists of or includes a sum required to be paid by a compensation order.
(2) The relevant court must make an attachment of earnings order if it appears to the court—
(a)that P is in employment, and
(b)that it is not impracticable or inappropriate to make the order.
(3) The relevant court must make an application for benefit deductions if it appears to the court—
(a)that P is entitled to a relevant benefit, and
(b)that it is not impracticable or inappropriate to make the application.
(4) If it appears to the court that (apart from this sub-paragraph) both sub-paragraph (2) and sub-paragraph (3) would apply, the court must make either an attachment of earnings order or an application for benefit deductions.”
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