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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, Section 23.
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(1)Where a country or territory, being a country or territory to which at the commencement of section 1 of this Act the M1Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 extended, becomes a reciprocating country, then, if immediately before the Order in Council made under section 12 of that Act extending that Act to that country or territory was revoked any maintenance order made by a court in that country or territory was registered in the High Court [F1or the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland] under section 1 of that Act, [F2subsection (1A) applies in relation to the order.
(1A)Where the order was at that time registered in the High Court, that court may, on an application by the payer or the payee under the order or of its own motion, transfer the order to the family court, with a view to the order being registered in the family court under this Part of this Act; and where the order was at that time registered in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, that court] may, on an application by the payer or the payee under the order or of its own motion, transfer the order to such magistrates’ court [F3in Northern Ireland] as having regard to the place where the payer is residing and to all the circumstances it thinks most appropriate, with a view to the order being registered in that [F4magistrates’] court under this Part of this Act.
[F5(1B)Where the High Court transfers an order to the family court under this section it shall—
(a)cause a certified copy of the order to be sent to an officer of the family court, and
(b)cancel the registration of the order in the High Court.]
(2)Where the High Court [F6of Justice in Northern Ireland] transfers an order to a magistrates’ court under this section it shall—
(a)cause a certified copy of the order to be sent to the [F7appropriate officer] of that court, and
(b)cancel the registration of the order in the High Court.
(3)The F8[F7... officer] of the court who receives a certified copy of an order sent to him under this section shall register the order in the prescribed manner in that court.
(4)On registering a maintenance order in [F9a] court by virtue of this section the [F10officer registering it] shall, if the order is registered in that court under Part I of the M2Maintenance Orders Act 1958, cancel that registration.
F11(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F12(6) In this section “appropriate officer”[F13, in relation to a magistrates' court in Northern Ireland, means the clerk of the court.]]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 23(1) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(2)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F2Words in s. 23(1)(1A) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(2)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F3Words in s. 23(1A) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(2)(c); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F4Word in s. 23(1A) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(2)(d); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F5S. 23(1B) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(3); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F6Words in s. 23(2) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(4); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F7Words in s. 23(2)(3)(4) substituted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 90, Sch. 13 para. 75 (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(a)(ii)
F8Word in s. 23(3) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(5); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F9Word in s. 23(4) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(6)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F10Words in s. 23(4) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(6)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F11S. 23(5) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(7); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F12S. 23(6) inserted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 90, Sch. 13 para. 75 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(a)(ii)
F13Words in s. 23(6) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 41(8); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
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