Interpretation
20.—(1) In this Part—
“appropriate officer of the High Court” means the District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division of the High Court or the district judge of the relevant district registry;
“certified copy” means a copy order certified by the designated officer of the court to be a true copy of the order or of the official record of the order; and
“maintenance order” has the meaning assigned in section 16(2) of the 1950 Act(1).
(2) References in Chapter 3 of this Part to the clerk of the court by which the order was made are to be construed, in relation to a maintenance order made by a county court in Northern Ireland, as references to the Chief Clerk for the appropriate county in Northern Ireland.
Section 16 was amended by section 95(1) of and paragraph 34 of Schedule 8 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49), sections 14 and 15(3) of and paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Guardianship Act 1973 (c.29), section 54 of and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c.18), section 12 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Divorce (Scotland) Act 1976 (c.39), section 35(2) of and paragraph 13 of Schedule 7 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c.71), section 3 of and Schedule 3 to the Administration of Justice Act 1977 (c.38), section 89(a) of and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (c.22), section 48(5) of and Schedule 4 to the Social Security and Housing Benefit Act 1982 (c.24), section 54 of and Schedule 14 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27), section 46 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c.42), section 28(1) of and Part 5 of Schedule 15 to the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.37), section 86 of and paragraph 39 of Part 2 to Schedule 10 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50), section 33 of and Schedules 2, 3 and 4 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c.42), section 116 of and paragraph 35 of Schedule 16 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, section 4 of and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c.6), section 66(1) of and paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 8 to the Family Law Act 1996, section 261(1) of and paragraph 18 of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33) and section 166 of and Part 5 of Schedule 15 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14) and by S.I. 1977/2158, 1980/564, 1989/678, 1995/756.