Maintenance Orders (Commonwealth Officers) Act 1966

Subject to this Act and the regulations, where a law of a State or Territory contains provisions (whether enacted before or after the commencement of this Act) for or in relation to the enforcement of maintenance orders by means of attachment of earnings orders directed to persons who are employers within the meaning of that law, those provisions apply, by force of this Act and as a law of the Commonwealth, in relation to the enforcement of maintenance orders against persons to whom moneys of a kind referred to in those provisions as earnings are or may become payable by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority and so apply as if a reference in those provisions to an employer included a reference to the Commonwealth and to every Commonwealth authority, but otherwise in like manner as those provisions apply as part of the law of the State or Territory.

The operation, by virtue of this Act, of any of the provisions of a law of a State or Territory, or the jurisdiction of a court for the purposes of any of those provisions as applying by virtue of this Act, is not subject to any limitation depending on the locality of persons, things, acts or events within the State or Territory that is expressed or implied in the law of the State or Territory.

The provisions that apply by force of this Act have effect in respect of the attachment of moneys notwithstanding any law that, but for this Act, would prevent the attachment of those moneys.