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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Amendment of certain enactments relating to maintenance orders registered in or confirmed by magistrates' courts or registered in the high court

The Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37)

4(1)In section 19 of that Act (functions of collecting officers, etc.), in subsection (2) (court to order that payments under maintenance order registered in court of summary jurisdiction in England or Northern Ireland be made to collecting officer, unless court satisfied it is undesirable to do so) for the words “unless it is satisfied that it is undesirable to do so” there shall be substituted “unless, in the case of a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland, it is satisfied that it is undesirable to do so”.

(2)For subsection (3) of that section (order under subsection (2) may be varied or revoked) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(3)An order made under subsection (2) of this section—

(a)by a court of summary jurisdiction in England may be varied or revoked by an exercise of the powers conferred by virtue of section 18(2ZA) or section 22(1A) or (1E) of this Act;

(b)by a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.