SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Amendment of the 1920 and 1972 Acts
Part II Amendment of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)
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1
Section 7 (confirmation by United Kingdom court of provisional maintenance order made in reciprocating country) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (2)(i), for the words “any such defence as he might have raised” there shall be substituted “
any grounds on which he might have opposed the making of the order
”
.
3
In subsection (3), for the words from “raised a defence” to the end there shall be substituted “
opposed the making of the order on any of those grounds.
”
.
4
In subsection (4), for the words “the court” there shall be substituted “
a magistrates’ court in Northern Ireland
”
.
5
In subsection (6), for the words “a summons to appear in” there shall be substituted “
notice of
”
.
6
After subsection (7) there shall be added—
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In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—
a
in subsection (2)(i), for the words from “any grounds” to “making of the order” there shall be substituted “any such defence as he might have raised”,
b
in subsection (3), for the words from “opposed the making” to the end there shall be substituted “raised a defence on any of those grounds in the proceedings in which the order was made.”, and
c
in subsection (6), for the words “notice of” there shall be substituted “a summons to appear in”.