Valid from 01/04/2001
7(1)Section 4 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 (power of magistrates’ courts to confirm maintenance orders made in certain Commonwealth countries) is amended as follows (but that section as modified in relation to Northern Ireland by section 11 of that Act is not so amended).
(2)In subsection (5B) (powers of court), for—
(a)“the clerk of the court or the clerk of any other magistrates’ court”, and
(b)“the clerk of the court, or to the clerk of any other magistrates’ court,”,
substitute “ a justices’ chief executive ”.
(3)In subsection (6A) (application of section 60 of the M1Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980)—
(a)in paragraph (b), in the paragraph to be regarded as substituted for subsection (4)(b) of that section, for “the clerk of the court, or to the clerk of any other magistrates’ court,” substitute “ a justices’ chief executive ”, and
(b)in paragraph (c) (words to be regarded as replaced in subsection (5) of that section), for “clerk”” substitute “ justices’ chief executive for the court” ”.