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Administration of Justice Act 1970

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48Variation in rate of payments in maintenance order registered in magistrates' court

(1)Section 4 of the [1958 c. 39.] Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (which enables the rate of payments in a maintenance order registered in a magistrates' court under that Act to be varied by the court of registration) shall be amended in accordance with this section.

(2)Subsection (3) of that section (rate of payments not to be varied upwards) shall cease to have effect in relation to any maintenance order as defined by section 28(1) of this Act, whether made or registered before or after the coming into force of this section.

(3)In subsection (4) of that section (power of magistrates' court, on application for variation, to remit to the court which made the order), for the words " that, by reason of the Umitations imposed on the court's jurisdiction by the last foregoing subsection or for any other reason, it is " there shall be substituted the words " that it is for any reason ".

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