Access to Justice Act 1999

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73(1)Section 8 (enforcement of maintenance order registered in United Kingdom court) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (3) (requirement of person liable under order to notify change of address to clerk of the court), for “clerk” substitute “appropriate officer”.

(3)After that subsection insert—

(3A)In subsection (3) above “appropriate officer” means—

(a)in relation to a magistrates' court in England and Wales, the justices' chief executive for the court; and

(b)in relation to a court elsewhere, the clerk of the court.

(4)In subsection (4A) (application of section 76 of the [1980 c. 43.] Magistrates' Courts Act 1980), in the subsection to be regarded as substituted as subsection (5) of that section, for—

(a)“the clerk of the court or the clerk of any other magistrates' court”, and

(b)“the clerk of the court, or to the clerk of any other magistrates' court,”,

substitute “a justices' chief executive”.