The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 2000

Made14th July 2000

Laid before Parliament18th July 2000

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 19801 after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules—

1.

These Rules may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 19992 comes into force.

2.

In rule 1 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 19923 for sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) there shall be substituted the words “to a justices' clerk acting for the petty sessions area in which the defendant is alleged to be living”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

14th July 2000

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 1922 (S.R. & O. 1922/1355) to take account of the coming into force of sections 74 and 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (No. 22) which modify the territorial organisation of magistrates and magistrates' courts and section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, that Act which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.