640.1. Seizure by garnishment under the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter 4, 2nd Supplement) is effected by serving, by personal service or by registered or certified mail, a writ of seizure by garnishment on the garnishee and on the debtor. The writ orders the garnishee to respond in accordance with the said Act and to deposit, with the clerk of the judicial district where the writ was issued, the seizable part of the sums of money owed or that will become payable by it to the debtor in accordance with the said Act.
The seizure has effect for arrears as well as for payments to become due.
1988, c. 17, s. 5; 1992, c. 57, s. 420.