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The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981

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Relief of collecting officer

50.—(1) Where a magistrates' court has ordered periodical payments to be made through the clerk of a magistrates' court, then, if it is proved that the person on whose behalf the order was made or, if that person is a child, the child or the person with whom the child has his home has persistently received the payments direct from the person liable to make them, the court that made the order may by order vary it so as to require the payments to be made direct.

(2) An order under this rule may be made—

(a)on complaint by the clerk through whom payments were ordered to be made; or

(b)on the hearing of a complaint to enforce the original order, if both parties are present.

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