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Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010

88.  After rule 32.10, insert—

Payments under a maintenance order registered in the family court

32.10A.(1) This rule applies where section 22(1A) of the 1950 Act applies and the family court orders that payments under a maintenance order registered in the family court are to be made by a particular means.

(2) The court officer will record on a copy of the order the means of payment that the court has ordered.

(3) The court officer will notify, in writing, the person liable to make payments under the order how the payments are to be made.

(4) Where the family court orders payment to the court by a method of payment specified in section 1(5) of the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991, the court officer will notify the person liable to make payments under the order of sufficient details of the account into which the payments should be made to enable payments to be made into that account.

(5) The Part 18 procedure applies to an application under section 1(7) of the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 from an interested party to vary the method of payment.

(6) The court officer will notify in writing that interested party and, where practicable, any other interested party, of the result of the application..