Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)

Part II U.K. Reciprocal Enforcement of Claims for the Recovery of Maintenance

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. II (ss. 25-39) applied (with modifications) (5.4.1993) by The Recovery of Maintenance (United States of America) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/591), art.3(1)

C2 Pt. II applied (with modifications) (1.10.2007) by The Recovery of Maintenance (United States of America) (Scotland) Order 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/355), arts. 1(1), 4 (with art. 5)

C3 Pt. II applied (with modifications) (1.10.2007) by The Recovery of Maintenance (United States of America) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2006), arts. 1(2), 3 (with arts. 4, 5) (as amended by S.I. 2014/879, arts. 1(1), 118)

Transfer, enforcement, variation and revocation of registered orders U.K.

[F1 35 Further provisions with respect to variation etc. of orders by [F2 the family court] in England and Wales. U.K.

[F3 (1) Subsection (1A) applies in relation to an application for the variation or revocation of a registered order registered in [F4 the family court] (“the registering court”) made—

(a) by the person against whom or on whose application the registered order was made, and

(b) in circumstances where the person by or against whom the application is made is residing outside England and Wales.

(1A) The registering court has jurisdiction to hear the application even though—

(a) a party to the application is residing outside England and Wales, F5 ...

F5 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(2) None of the powers of the court F7 ... under section 34A of this Act shall be exercisable in relation to such an application.

(3) Where the respondent to an application for the variation or revocation of a registered order which is registered in [F8 the family court] does not appear at the time and place appointed for the hearing of the application, but the court is satisfied—

(a) that the respondent is residing outside England and Wales, and

(b) that the prescribed notice of the making of the application and of the time and place appointed for the hearing has been given to the respondent in the prescribed manner,

the court may proceed to hear and determine the application at the time and place appointed for the hearing or for any adjourned hearing in like manner as if the respondent had appeared at that time and place.

F9 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 35, 35A substituted (5.4.1993) for s. 35 by Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (c. 56), ss. 1, 3, Sch. 1 Pt. II, para. 16; S.I. 1993/618, art. 2

F2 Words in s. 35 heading substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 52(d); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F3 S. 35(1)-(1B) substituted for s. 35(1) (7.12.2012) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2814), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 2(6)(a)

F4 Words in s. 35(1) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 52(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F5 S. 35(1A)(b) and preceding word omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/605), arts. 1, 10

F6 S. 35(1B) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/519), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 5(3)(a) (with reg. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1574, regs. 1, 5(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7 Words in s. 35(2) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 52(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F8 Words in s. 35(3) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 52(c); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F9 S. 35(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/519), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 5(3)(b) (with reg. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1574, regs. 1, 5(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)