60.—(1) A designated officer to whom payments are made by virtue of section 27C, section 33(3A) or section 34A of the 1972 Act(1) must send those payments by post to such person or authority as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time direct.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where it appears to a designated officer to whom payments under a registered order are made that any sums payable under the order are in arrear, the designated officer may proceed in the designated officer’s own name for the recovery of those sums.
(3) Where it appears to the designated officer referred to in paragraph (2) that sums payable under the order are in arrear to an amount equal—
(a)in the case of payments to be made monthly or less frequently, to twice the sum payable periodically; or
(b)in any other case, to four times the sum payable periodically,
the designated officer must proceed in the designated officer’s own name for the recovery of those sums, unless it appears to the designated officer that it is unreasonable in the circumstances to do so.
Section 33(3A) was inserted by section 10 of and paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991. Section 34A was inserted by section 10 of and paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 to the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 and was amended by section 109(1) of and paragraph 163 of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003.