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46.—(1) Any overdue sums are recoverable—
(a)summarily as a civil debt; and
(b)if the High Court or a county court so orders on the application of the Lord Chancellor, as if they were payable under an order of the court in question.
(2) Where a complaint is made for the recovery of an overdue sum as a civil debt, the powers conferred on a magistrates’ court by section 58 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980(1) may be exercised by a single justice.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 46 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1
(1)
1980 c. 43. Section 58 was amended by section 33 of, paragraph 80 of Schedule 2 to, and paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 3 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42).