8.—(1) All applications to the sheriff court for the transmission of a maintenance order, to which this Part applies, to a court in a specified state for registration and enforcement shall be made by a letter to that effect addressed to the sheriff clerk.
(2) Paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 shall apply to the application made under this paragraph as it applies to an application made under that paragraph.
9. The sheriff clerk—
(a)on receiving a maintenance order made in a court in a specified state for registration in the sheriff court under the Act of 1972;
(b)on receiving a subsequent order so made varying or revoking or cancelling that order,
shall enter the details relating to that order in the register.
10. Where any request is made to a sheriff by or on behalf of a court in a specified state for the evidence of a person residing within the sheriffdom to be taken under section 14 of the Act of 1972, that evidence shall be taken and recorded in such manner as the sheriff may direct.