Section 5: Sums attached vested in attaching officer
consolidated text (as at 2011). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Sums attached vested in attaching officer
The service of such attachment on the garnishee shall operate to vest
absolutely in the attaching officer on behalf of Government, a Municipal City
Council or Municipal Town Council, as the case may be, the right to the
money attached, notwithstanding any subsequent opposition or attachment
which may be lodged in the hands of the garnishee by third parties.
[S. 5 amended by s. 165 (2) (b) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]