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(1) Where any money is payable by the State to a person who is under a court order to pay money to another person, that latter person is entitled to obtain an order for the attachment of the money as a debt due or accrued under the rules of court to him.

(2) The court may, subject to this Act and in accordance with the rules of court, make an order restraining a person to whom the State is liable to pay money from receiving that money and directing payment of it to any other person.

(3) No court shall make an order under subsection (2) of this section in respect of-

(a) any wages or salary payable to an employee of the State; or

(b) pension or social security; or

(c) any money which by the provisions of any enactment, is prohibited or restricted from attachment for the execution of a debt.