Part Three: Working hours, pay, profit-sharing and employee savings schemes

The garnishee shall disclose : 1° The legal situation existing between himself and the distrainee debtor ; 2° Assignments, seizures, third-party administrative seizures or direct payment of maintenance claims currently being enforced. The garnishee third party employer who fails to make this declaration without a legitimate reason or makes a false declaration may be ordered by the court to pay a civil fine without prejudice to an order to pay…

The garnishee shall pay monthly the deductions for which the seizure is made within the limits of the sums available. If he fails to do so, the court, even of its own motion, shall declare him liable for the deductions that should have been made. In order to determine the amount of these deductions, the judge may contact the tax and social security bodies under the conditions set out in…

The parties may be represented by : 1° A lawyer ; 2° A ministerial officer of the jurisdiction, who is exempt from producing a power of attorney; 3° An agent of their choice with power of attorney. If this agent represents the distraining creditor, his power of attorney must be specific to the case for which he represents his principal.

In the event of an attachment relating to remuneration in respect of which an assignment has previously been granted and duly notified, the assignee shall be deemed to be the distraining creditor in respect of the sums still owing to it, for as long as it is in competition with other distraining creditors.

The court may decide, at the request of the debtor or the creditor and having regard to the percentage of the remuneration that may be seized, the amount of the claim and the rate of interest due, that the claim that is the subject of the seizure shall bear interest at a reduced rate from the date of authorisation of the seizure or that the sums deducted from the remuneration…