New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 39.43

39.43 Notice required for certain attached debts yet to accrue

(cf Act No 9 1973, section 97C; Act No 11 1970, section 47C)

(1) If a garnishee order attaches a debt that is due for payment to the judgment debtor more than 28 days after service of the order on the garnishee, the garnishee must, within that period of 28 days, cause notice of that fact to be served on the judgment creditor.

(2) The notice must specify--

(a) the date on which the debt is, or is likely to be, due for payment to the judgment debtor, and

(b) if the amount of the debt is less than the unpaid amount of the judgment debt specified in the garnishee order, the amount of the debt.

Note : The giving of false or misleading information in such a notice constitutes an offence under section 307B of the Crimes Act 1900 .