Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act

Marginal note:Service binding

• 18 (1) Subject to this Division, service on a parliamentary entity of a garnishee summons, together with a copy of the order against a debtor and an application in the prescribed form, binds the parliamentary entity, 15 days after the day on which those documents are served.

• Marginal note:When service is effective

  (2) A garnishee summons served on the parliamentary entity is of no effect unless it is served in the first 45 days following the first day on which it could have been validly served.

• Marginal note:Parliamentary entity no longer bound

  (3) The garnishee summons ceases to bind the parliamentary entity after the periods and in the circumstances specified in the regulations.