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Attachment of Earnings Act 1971
Courts with power to attach earnings: High Court, Family Court, County Court.
Thanks to Richard Vobes & Gavin from Sovereign Empowerment
Councils do not have the judicial authority to issue Orders which would be in breach of s.78(2) of the Local Government Act 1988.
Local Government Act 1988
2. …provided that the transfers of powers and duties enacted by the Act shall not authorise any county council or any committee or member thereof; a) to exercise any of the powers of a court of record; b) to administer an oath; c) to exercise any jurisdiction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts or perform any judicial business or otherwise act as justices or a justice of the peace.
Employment Rights Act 1996
13. Right not to suffer unauthorised deductions.
Senior Courts Act 1981, Chapter 54 part II: Law & Equity
49. Subject to the provisions of this or any other Act, every court exercising jurisdiction in England & Wales in any civil cause or matters, shall continue to administer Law and Equity on the basis that, whenever there is a conflict of variance between the rules of equity and the rules of the common law with reference to the same matter, the rules of equity shall prevail.
Declaration of Right 1688 (a peace treaty) was never rescinded or repealed & was ratified and enacted by Parliament through the Bill of Rights 1688 (also known as the Bill of Rights 1689) which has not been abrogated and or repealed and binds all crown servants. No prerogative powers to levy taxes. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/2
HM Government: The Cabinet Manual in PDF Format
The Cabinet Manual, published in 2011 by HM Government for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that sets out the main statutes, laws, rules, and conventions affecting the conduct and operation of the Government of the United Kingdom. It was written by the Civil Service, led by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, and provides an overview of the UK’s system of government.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-manual (Page 2, SCN 5)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79d5d7e5274a18ba50f2b6/cabinet-manual.pdf
Page 29, Note 23 “For example, the Bill of Rights 1689 put beyond doubt that there was no prerogative power to levy taxes.“
Page 24 “3.28 Most secretaries of state are incorporated as ‘corporations sole’. This gives the minister a separate legal personality. This is administratively convenient, for example as regards the ownership of property, because it facilitates continuity when the officeholder changes.”
Page 100 “Consolidated Fund The Government’s main bank account at the Bank of England.”
Regina (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2014] UKSC 3
https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2013_0172_judgment_c165c94a10.pdf
207. The United Kingdom has no written constitution, but we have a number of constitutional instruments. They include Magna Carta, the Petition of Right 1628, the Bill of Rights and (in Scotland) the Claim of Rights Act 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Act of Union 1707. The European Communities Act 1972, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 may now be added to this list. The common law itself also recognises certain principles as fundamental to the rule of law. It is, putting the point at its lowest, certainly arguable (and it is for United Kingdom law and courts to determine) that there may be fundamental principles, whether contained in other constitutional instruments or recognised at common law, of which Parliament when it enacted the European Communities Act 1972 did not either contemplate or authorise the abrogation.
208. We are not expressing any view on whether or how far article 9 of the Bill of Rights would count among these, but the point is too important to pass without mention. We would wish to hear full argument upon it before expressing any concluded view. It is not a point upon which the parties before us proposed to make any submissions until it was raised by the Court. We were then told that the attention of the Parliamentary authorities (and we deliberately use a vague expression) had been drawn to this appeal, and they elected not to be represented. If and when the point does fall to be considered, the Parliamentary authorities may wish to reconsider whether they should be represented, and, particularly if they still regard that course as inappropriate, it may well be the sort of point on which the Attorney General should appear or be represented. Important insights into potential issues in this area are to be found in their penetrating discussion by Laws LJ in the Divisional Court in Thoburn v Sunderland City Council [2002] EWHC 195 (Admin), [2003] QB 151, (The Metric Martyrs case), especially paras 58-70, although the focus there was the possibility of conflict between an earlier “constitutional” and later “ordinary” statute, rather than, as here, between two constitutional instruments, which raises yet further considerations.
Act of Settlement [1701] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/2
The Coronation Oath Act [1688] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/6
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