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”.