Part II E+W Financial Relief in Matrimonial Proceedings

Provisions relating to the powers of magistrates’ courts E+W

11 Variation of consent orders by magistrates’ courts. E+W

For section 20(2) of the M1 Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (under which the court can vary a consent order by ordering the payment of a lump sum if the consent order provided for the payment of a lump sum) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(2) Where a magistrates’ court has made an order under section 6 of this Act for the making of periodical payments by a party to a marriage the court shall have power, on an application made under this section, to vary or revoke that order and also to make an order for the payment of a lump sum by that party either—

(a) to the other party to the marriage, or

(b) to a child of the family or to that other party for the benefit of that child.”

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 22.