The Magistrates’ Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) Rules 2011

Procedure under Part 2 of the 1950 Act in relation to a maintenance order made by a magistrates’ court in England and Wales

21.—(1) An application under Part 2 of the 1950 Act for the registration in a court in Scotland or Northern Ireland of a maintenance order made by a magistrates’ court in England and Wales—

(a) may be made either orally or in writing; and

(b) must be made to a justice or justices acting in the same place as the court which made the order.

(2) Unless the applicant appears in person, the applicant must file with the court a document verified by a statement of truth signed by the applicant or the applicant’s legal representative which states—

(a) the address of the person liable to make payments under the order;

(b) the reason why it is convenient that the order should be enforced in Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be;

(c) unless a certificate of arrears is lodged under section 20 of the 1950 Act, the amount of any arrears due under the order;

(d) that the order is not already registered under Part 2 of the 1950 Act.

(3) If it appears to the justice that the person liable to make payments under the order resides in Scotland or Northern Ireland and that it is convenient that the order should be enforceable there, the designated officer for the court which made the order will send to the sheriff-clerk of the sheriff court in Scotland or to the clerk of the court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland (as the case may be) having jurisdiction in the place in which the person liable to make payments under the order appears to be—

(a) a certified copy of the order;

(b) the certificate of arrears or the document referred to in paragraph (2) (if there is any such document);

(c) if no document referred to in paragraph (2) has been lodged, written notice of the address of the person liable to make payments under the order.

(4) A memorandum of any proceedings taken under paragraph (1) must be entered in the register.

(5) The designated officer for the court which made the order must, on receipt of notice under section 17(4)(1) of the 1950 Act of the registration of the order, enter a memorandum of that notice in the register.

(6) The designated officer for the court which made the order is the prescribed officer for the purposes of section 17(4) of the 1950 Act.

(1)

Section 17 was amended by section 109(1) of and paragraph 87 of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 and section 59(5) of and paragraph 19(1)(and (2) of Schedule 11 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.