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a lower Division"; and
     (d) by omitting sub-section (2).

Suspension of officers other than Permanent Heads
40. Section 63b of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) "included in the Second, Third or Fourth Division".

Criminal offences
41. Section 63m of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) "within the period of 6 months immediately preceding, or after, the commencement of this section" and substituting "after 15 September 1980".

Imprisonment
42. Section 63r of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) "included in the First Division" and substituting "referred to in Subdivision B".

43. (1) Section 64 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Attachment of salaries of officers
"64. (1) Where judgment has been given for the payment of a sum of money, the person in whose favour the judgment is given (in this section referred to as the 'judgment creditor') may serve on the Paying Officer of the Department in which the officer against whom the judgment was given is employed a copy of the judgment, certified under the hand of the Registrar of other appropriate officer of the Court by which the judgment was delivered, and a statutory declaration stating that the judgment has not been satisfied by the officer, and setting out the amount due by the officer under the judgment.
"(2) Upon the service on him of a copy of a judgment and a statutory declaration in pursuance of this section, the Paying Officer shall, as soon as practicable, notify the officer against whom the judgment was given, in writing, of the service of the copy of the judgment and statutory declaration, and require him to state, in writing, within a time to be specified by the Paying Officer, whether the judgment has been satisfied, and, if so, to furnish evidence in support thereof, and, if the judgment has not been satisfied, to state the amount then due under the judgment.

"(3) If an officer fails, within the time specified in the notice given to him under sub-section (2), to satisfy the Paying Officer of his Department that the judgment debt has been satisfied, the Paying Officer shall, subject to sub-section (15), in respect of each pay-day, cause to be deducted from the salary becoming payable to the officer on that pay-day an amount equal to the normal deduction in respect of the officer and the pay-day, or such lesser amount as is, in the opinion of the Paying Officer, sufficient to satisfy the balance of the judgment debt.
"(4) There is payable to the Commonwealth, by a judgment creditor who causes a copy of a judgment