SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Financial Provision for Children
Orders for financial relief for persons over eighteen
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1
If, on an application by a person who has reached the age of eighteen, it appears to the court—
a
that the applicant is, will be or (if an order were made under this paragraph) would be receiving instruction at an educational establishment or undergoing training for a trade, profession or vocation, whether or not while in gainful employment; or
b
that there are special circumstances which justify the making of an order under this paragraph,
the court may make one or both of the orders mentioned in sub-paragraph (2).
2
The orders are—
a
an order requiring either or both of the applicant’s parents to pay to the applicant such periodical payments, for such term, as may be specified in the order;
b
an order requiring either or both of the applicant’s parents to pay to the applicant such lump sum as may be so specified.
3
An application may not be made under this paragraph by any person if, immediately before he reached the age of sixteen, a periodical payments order was in force with respect to him.
4
No order shall be made under this paragraph at a time when the parents of the applicant are living with each other in the same household.
5
An order under sub-paragraph (2)(a) may be varied or discharged by a subsequent order made on the application of any person by or to whom payments were required to be made under the previous order.
6
In sub-paragraph (3) “periodical payments order” means an order made under—
a
this Schedule;
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c
section 23 or 27 of the M1Matrimonial Causes Act 1973;
d
Part I of the M2Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978,
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Part 1 or 9 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (financial relief in the High Court or a county court etc.);
f
Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act (financial relief in the magistrates' courts etc.),
for the making or securing of periodical payments.
7
The powers conferred by this paragraph shall be exercisable at any time.
8
Where the court makes an order under this paragraph it may from time to time while that order remains in force make a further such order.