Third person entitled to expenses of obeying order
53 Third person entitled to expenses of obeying order
A third person who obeys a debt appropriation order is entitled to the reasonable expenses (not exceeding the prescribed amount) of doing so.
A third person may recover an amount equal to the expenses referred to in subsection (1) —
if the debt appropriation order relates to the whole of the available debt — by retaining the amount from the available debt before paying the balance of it to the judgment creditor;
if the debt appropriation order relates to a part of the available debt — by retaining the amount —
firstly, from the balance of the available debt that would remain after paying the appropriated debt to the judgment creditor; and
secondly and if necessary, from the appropriated debt before paying the balance of the appropriated debt to the judgment creditor.
The statute text is free to read above. View Pro plans to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.