Hong Kong Regulations

ATTACHMENT OF INCOME ORDER RULES - RULE 3A

Requirements relating to joint application made by maintenance payer and designated payee

(1) This rule applies to an application for an attachment order jointly by the
maintenance payer and the designated payee.

(2) The application shall be supported by an affidavit made jointly by the
applicants stating-

   (a)  the name and address of each applicant;

   (b)  particulars of the related maintenance order;

   (c)  the name and address of the income source;

   (d)  the nature of the income to be attached; and

   (e)  the terms of the attachment order that the applicants invite the court
        to make.

(3) The application shall be accompanied by-

   (a)  a statement of means in Form 1 in the Schedule, signed by the
        maintenance payer; and

   (b)  subject to subrule (4), a statement of verification completed and
        signed by the income source, or if there is more than one income 
        source, each income source, in the same form as that attached to Form
        3 in the Schedule.

(4) If the statement of verification referred to in subrule (3)(b) is not
available, the application shall be accompanied by a statement of the
maintenance payer setting out the efforts made to obtain the statement of
verification and the reasons for it not being available. (L.N. 260 of 2001)