SCHEDULE 1

1 Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules 1950
In rule 1—
(a) in paragraph (1), omit “in a court having jurisdiction by virtue of subsection (3) of section 1 of the said Act”;
(b) after paragraph (1), insert—

“1A Where proceedings under Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 are begun against a defendant residing in Scotland or Northern Ireland, then, upon an application in that behalf made by the defendant in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Rule, a justice acting in the same place as that court may, if it appears that the case could be more conveniently heard in a court of summary jurisdiction having jurisdiction in the place where the parties last ordinarily resided together as civil partners, determine that the proceedings shall be removed into the last-mentioned court.
2004 c. 33.”

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(c) in paragraph (2)—
(i) for “paragraph” substitute “paragraphs”; and
(ii) for “section 1” substitute “provisions”;
(d) in paragraph (3), after “(1)” insert “or (1A)”; and
(e) in paragraph (4)—
(i) after “(1)” insert “or (1A)”; and
(ii) for “section 1” substitute “provisions”.