Section 9: Garnishee failing to comply with attachment
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.
9. Garnishee failing to comply with attachment
Where the garnishee fails to comply with the summons, or where, in contempt of such attachment, he pays over the money attached to any person
other than the attaching officer or other person deputed by him, or where,
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after making the declaration provided for in section 6, in the absence of any
prior attachment, he fails to effect payment as directed in section 6, proceedings may be taken against him by the attaching officer in the same
manner as if he were the direct debtor of the rates or taxes in arrear.