3. Section 218 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
| (1) in the first proviso to that section-
| | (a) in clause (g) of that proviso, by the substitution, for the words " stipend and the cost of living allowance ", of the words "stipend, the cost of living allowance and the special living allowance " ; | | |
| | (b) in clause (h) of that proviso, by the substitution, for the words " salary and the cost of living allowance ", of the words " salary, the cost of living allowance and the special living allowance " | | |
| | (c) by the substitution, for clause (m) of that proviso, of the following new clause : - " (m) the salary or wages and allowances of an employee other than a public officer or servant, if the aggregate amount of such salary or wages and allowances does not exceed five hundred rupees per mensem ; " ; and | | |
| | (d) by the insertion, immediately after clause (m) of that proviso, of the following new clauses : -
| | | " (n) any house which is not mortgaged as security for the payment of the whole or a part of the sum referred to in such decree and which is the actual residence of the judgment-debtor at the time of the execution of such decree and has been such residence from the time of the institution of the action in which such decree has been entered; |
| (o) the amount standing to the credit of an employee's individual account in the Employees' Provident Fund established under the Employees' Provident Fund Act, No. 15 of 1958, or in any other provident fund established for the benefit of employees in any employment; and |
| (p) the salary and allowances of a teacher in an assisted school in respect of whom a grant may be made under any regulation made under, or continued in force by, the Education Ordinance. " ; |
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| (2) in the " Explanation " attached to that section, by the substitution, for the words and letters " clauses (g), (h), (i), (j) and (m) ", of the words and letters " clauses (g), (h), (i), (j), (m), (o) and (p) " ; and |
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| (3) by the substitution, for all the words and figures from " In paragraph (m) of the first proviso " to the end of that section, of the following: - |
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