122   Maximum total payment under all garnishee orders

(Act No 9 1973, section 99; Act No 11 1970, section 49)

(1)  The amounts attached under one or more garnishee orders must not, in total, reduce the net weekly amount of any wage or salary received by the judgment debtor from the garnishee to less than the standard workers compensation weekly benefit.

(2)  In this section:

net weekly amount, in relation to any wage or salary payable to a judgment debtor, means the amount payable each week to the judgment debtor after deducting any taxes or other sums that, pursuant to any Act (including any Commonwealth Act), are required to be deducted from any such money.

standard workers compensation weekly benefit means an amount equivalent to the weekly payment of compensation referred to in section 37 (1) (a) (i) of the Workers Compensation Act 1987, as adjusted under Division 6 of Part 3 of that Act.