AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ATTACHMENT OF WAGES LIMITATION ORDINANCE 1966.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 7 of 1966

	The Attachment of Wages Limitation Act 1900 of New South Wales is still the law of the Territory, and it provides that the whole of a worker’s wage except for £2 per week may be attached.

	The object of this Ordinance is to protect from attachment an amount of $23 per week for a male and $15.25 for a female.  This amount is in each case eight dollars less than the current basic wages.  This is equivalent to the amount at present protected in New South Wales.