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Changes over time for: Section 86A
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The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Section 86A is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 07 December 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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[Interest on arrearsN.I.
86A.—(1) The Lord Chancellor may by order provide that a court of summary jurisdiction, on the hearing of a complaint for the enforcement, revocation, revival, variation or discharge of a Northern Ireland maintenance order, may order that interest of an amount calculated at the prescribed rate be paid on so much of the sum due under the order as the court may determine.
(2) In paragraph (1) “the prescribed rate” means such rate of interest as the Lord Chancellor may by order prescribe.
(3) An order under this Article may make provision for the manner in which and the periods by reference to which interest is to be calculated.
(4) Where, by virtue of paragraph (1), a court of summary jurisdiction orders the payment of interest on any sum due under a maintenance order—
(a)then if it orders that the whole or any part of the interest be paid by instalments that order shall be regarded as an instalments order for the purposes of Article 87 and that Article shall accordingly apply in relation to it; and
(b)the whole of the interest shall be enforceable as a sum adjudged to be paid by the maintenance order.
(5) In this Article—
(6) An order under this Article made by the Lord Chancellor shall be made with the concurrence of the Treasury and shall be subject to [negative resolution].]
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