The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1992

The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Republic of Ireland) Rules 1975

12.  In rule 10 of the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Republic of Ireland) Rules 1975–

(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following two paragraphs:

“(1) When an order is registered under section 6(3) of the Act, the court shall order that payment of sums due thereunder shall be made to the clerk of the registering court during such hours and at such place as that clerk may direct.

(1A) A justices' clerk to whom payments are ordered to be made (whether by virtue of an order under paragraph (1) above or by virtue of an order of the court under the Act) shall send those payments by post to the payee under the order, or where a public authority has been authorised by the payee to receive the payments, to that public authority.”;

(b) in paragraph (2), the words “by virtue of paragraph (1) above” shall be omitted.