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Section 22.
1In section 57(4) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (proceedings to be treated as domestic proceedings) after the words " Act, 1920 " there shall be inserted the words " or registered in a magistrates' court under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 " and for the words " or confirmed ", where last occurring, there shall be substituted the words " confirmed or registered ".
2Section 150 of the Army Act 1955 and section 150 of the Air Force Act 1955 (enforcement of maintenance, etc. orders by deduction from pay) shall each be amended by the insertion, in subsection (5), at the end of the first paragraph of the words " and to an order registered in such a court under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 ".
3In section 101 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (service of process in proceedings for maintenance, etc.), in subsection (5), after the words " Act, 1920" there shall be inserted the words " or registered in such a court under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 ".
4At the end of section 1 of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (introductory provisions setting out the scheme of Part I as respects registration in one court of a maintenance order made by another) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(4)For the purposes of this section a maintenance order within the meaning of Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 which is registered in a magistrates' court under the said Part I shall be deemed to be a maintenance order made by that court.”
5In section 10 of the Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (orders to which Part II of that Act applies)—
(a)in subsection (2), after the word " means " there shall be inserted the words " an order made outside the United Kingdom and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 or "; and
(b)at the end there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(5)For the purposes of this Part an order made outside the United Kingdom and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 shall be deemed to be a maintenance order made by that court”.
6At the end of Schedule 8 to the Administration of Justice Act 1970 (maintenance orders to which Part I of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 applies) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“11A maintenance order within the meaning of Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 registered in a magistrates' court under the said Part I.”
7At the end of Schedule 1 to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (maintenance orders to which that Act applies) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“11A maintenance order within the meaning of Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 registered in a magistrates' court under the said Part I.”
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