Amendment of the International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012U.K.
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40.—(1) The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2, omit the definition of “the Maintenance Regulation” and the “and” which precedes it.
(3) In regulation 4, omit “which are not European Union Member States”.
(4) For the heading of regulation 8 substitute “ Further amendments ”.
(5) In regulation 8, omit “relating to the Maintenance Regulation”.
(6) In Schedule 1 (recognition and enforcement of non-EU maintenance decisions, and establishment and modification of maintenance obligations under the Convention)—
(a)in the heading, omit “non-EU”;
(b)in paragraph 1(1), in the definition of “Contracting State” omit “other than an EU Member State”;
(c)in paragraph 7, in sub-paragraph (2)(a) omit “by virtue of the Maintenance Regulation and Schedule 6 to the Civil Jurisdiction Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011”.
(7) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (enforcement of international maintenance orders – driving disqualification orders) omit “(e) the Maintenance Regulation; or (f)”.
(8) In Schedule 4—
(a)in paragraph 7, in sub-paragraph (4)(b), omit “, as it applies in the United Kingdom by virtue of any declaration made by the European Union pursuant to Article 2(3) of that Convention”;
(b)in paragraph 8, in sub-paragraph (5) in the definition of “the 2007 Hague Convention” omit “, as it applies in the United Kingdom by virtue of any declaration made by the European Union pursuant to Article 2(3) of that Convention”.
(9) For the heading of Schedule 5 (amendments relating to the Maintenance Regulation) substitute “ Further amendments ”.
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