The Fines Collection Regulations 2006

Tables and calculation method for attachment of earnings orders

12.  Where earnings are payable to P by the employer by 2 or more series of payments at regular intervals—

(a) if some or all of the intervals are of different lengths—

(i) for the purpose of arriving at the sum to be deducted, whichever of regulations 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 is appropriate shall apply to the series with the shortest interval (or, if there is more than one series with the shortest interval, such one of those series as the employer may choose), and

(ii) in relation to the earnings payable in every other series, the sum to be deducted shall be 20 per cent of the attachable earnings or, where on any pay-day an amount advanced is also paid, 20 per cent of the aggregate of the attachable earnings and the amount advanced;

(b) if all of the intervals are of the same length, whichever of regulations 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 is appropriate shall apply to such series as the employer may choose and paragraph (a)(ii) shall apply to every other series,

and regulation 8 shall apply in relation to paragraph (a)(ii) as it applies in relation to regulation 6.