Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01638:reg:139
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01638
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 139
Character Range: 173325–174217

139  Priority of attachment orders
 (1) This section is made for the purposes of paragraph 125(1)(g) of the Act.
 (2) For the purposes of the Maintenance Orders (Commonwealth Officers) Act 1966, an order made under the applicable Rules of Court for the attachment of moneys payable by:
 (a) the Commonwealth, a State, a Territory or the Administration of a Territory; or
 (b) by an authority of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory;
has the same force and effect as an order made under the Third Schedule to the repealed Act.
Note: The repealed Act is the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959: see the definition of repealed Act in subsection 4(1) of the Act.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to moneys as to which it is provided by any law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory that they are not liable to attachment.

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