Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010
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Enforcement. |
186.— (1) A maintenance creditor who fails to obtain a sum of money due under an attachment of earnings order, or the clerk to whom the sum falls to be paid, may sue for the sum as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, if the failure to obtain the sum is caused by— | |
(a) a person failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 177 (3) or (4), or 180 , or an order under section 179 or 183 (2), or | ||
(b) a person, without reasonable excuse, giving a false or misleading statement under section 179 (1) or notification under section 180 . | ||
(2) A person who gives to a court a statement pursuant to section 179 or a notification under section 180 that he or she knows to be false or misleading commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €254 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both. | ||
(3) A person who contravenes section 177 (3) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €63. |