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Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984

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31Extension of s. 31 of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972

(1)Section 31(4) of the [1972 c. 18.] Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (recovery of maintenance in Scotland from former spouse on order made in convention country) shall have effect with the following amendments.

(2)In paragraph (i), for the words " granted in a convention country " there shall be substituted the words " obtained in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom ".

(3)For paragraph (ii) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(ii)an order for the payment of maintenance for the benefit of the applicant as a divorced person has, in or by reason of, or subsequent to, the divorce proceedings, been made by a court in a convention country;

(iia)in a case where the order mentioned in paragraph (ii) above was made by a court of a different country from that in which the divorce was obtained, either the applicant or the said former spouse was resident in that different country at the time the application for the order so mentioned was made; and”.

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