3.—(1) The Administration of Justice Act 1970 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 28 (other provisions for the interpretation of Part 2), in subsection (1), in the definition of “maintenance order”—
(a)after “any order” insert “ , decision, settlement or instrument ”;
(b)for “such an order” substitute “ one ”;
(c)after “discharged” insert “ or has otherwise ceased to operate ”.
(3) In Schedule 8 (which lists maintenance orders for the purposes of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 and Part 2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1970), after paragraph 13A M1 insert—
“13B.—(1) A decision, court settlement or authentic instrument which falls to be enforced by a magistrates' court by virtue of the Maintenance Regulation and the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011.
(2) In this paragraph—
“the Maintenance Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 including as applied in relation to Denmark by virtue of the Agreement made on 19th October 2005 between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark;
“decision”, “court settlement” and “authentic instrument” have the meanings given by Article 2 of the Maintenance Regulation.”.
Marginal Citations
M1Paragraph 13A was inserted by Article 5 of and paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to S.I.2001/3929.