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Naval Discipline Act 1957 (repealed)

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Version Superseded: 01/01/1992

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101 Service of proceedings for maintenance, etc.F9U.K.

(1)Any process to be served on an officer or rating who is subject to this Act (in this section referred to as “the defendant”) in connection with proceedings for a maintenance order as defined by this section, or for the variation, revocation or revival of such an order, shall be deemed to be duly served on the defendant if served on the commanding officer of the ship or establishment in which the defendant is serving or on the books of which he is borne, and may, without prejudice to any other method of service, be so served within the United Kingdom by registered post.

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(4)Where any such process is served in the United Kingdom and the defendant will be required to appear in person at the hearing, the service of the process shall be of no effect if [F3his commanding officer certifies] to the court by which the process was issued that the defendant is under orders for service on a foreign station and that [F3in the commanding officer’s opinion] it would not be possible for the defendant to attend the hearing and return in time to embark for that service.

[F4(4A)Where any such process is to be served in the United Kingdom or elsewhere and the defendant will be required to appear in person at the hearing, the service of that process shall be of no effect if his commanding officer certifies to the court by which the process was issued that the defendant is absent without leave or has deserted and remains in desertion.]

(5)In this section the expression “maintenance order” means an order made by a court in the United Kingdom or registered in or confirmed by such a court under the provisions of the M1Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 [F5or registered in such a court under Part I of the M2Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 [F6or Part I of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982]], being an order for the payment of any periodical or other sum specified therein for or in respect of—

(a)the maintenance of any person who is or, where the order is made in proceedings in connection with the dissolution or annulment of a marriage, would if the marriage had subsisted have been, the wife or child of the person against whom the order is made; or

(b)the maintenance of any illegitimate child of whom the person against whom the order is made is the putative father; or

(c)any costs incurred in obtaining the order; or

(d)any costs incurred in proceedings on appeal against or for the variation, revocation or revival of any such order;

[F7and includes an affiliation order within the meaning of [F8the M3Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957.]]

(6)Nothing in this section shall be construed as enabling process to be served in connection with proceedings in a court of summary jurisdiction unless the defendant is within the United Kingdom or is serving in a ship on a home station or a naval establishment within the United Kingdom.

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F9Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions

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