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PART IIIAmendments of other Enactments relating to Domestic Proceedings

Amendments of Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957

51Persons entitled to payments under affiliation orders

(1)In section 5(1) of the [1957 c. 55.] Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957 (which relates to the persons entitled to payments under an affiliation order) after the words " child's mother" there shall be inserted the words " for the benefit of the child or the child himself ".

(2)In section 5(3) of the said Act (which enables payments under an affiliation order to be made to the person who for the time being has the custody of the child) for the words " entitle that person to any payments to be made under the order" there shall be substituted the words " provide that the person entitled to payments under the order shall be that person for the benefit of the child or the child himself ".

(3)In section 5(4) of the said Act (which provides that a person appointed as guardian under that subsection shall be entitled to payments under an affiliation order) for the words from " a person appointed" to the words " affiliation order and " there shall be substituted the words " where the court has appointed a person as guardian under this subsection the court may provide that the person entitled to any payments to be made under the affiliation order shall be that guardian for the benefit of the child or the child himself and the guardian. ".