The court , or where an attachment of earnings order is made under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, the court or the fines officer as the case may be, may make an order discharging or varying an attachment of earnings order.
Where an order is varied, the employer shall, if he has been served with notice of the variation, comply with the order as varied; but he shall be under no liablility for non-compliance before seven days have elapsed since the service.
Rules of court may make provision—
Where an attachment of earnings order has been made and the person to whom it is directed ceases to have the debtor in his employment, the order shall lapse (except as respects deduction from earnings paid after the cesser and payment to the collecting officer of amounts deducted at any time) and be of no effect unless and until the court , or where the order was made under Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, unless and until the court or the fines officer as the case may be, again directs it to a person (whether the same as before or another) who appears to the court or the fines officer (as the case may be) to have the debtor in his employment.
The lapse of an order under subsection (4) above shall not prevent its being treated as remaining in force for other purposes.