SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Financial relief: provision corresponding to provision made by the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978

Part 1Failure to maintain etc.: financial provision

The orders: periodical and secured periodical payments and lump sums

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(1)

The orders are—

(a)

an order that the respondent must make to the applicant such periodical payments for such term as may be specified;

(b)

an order that the respondent must pay to the applicant such lump sum as may be specified;

(c)

an order that the respondent must make—

(i)

to the applicant for the benefit of a child of the family to whom the application relates, or

(ii)

to a child of the family to whom the application relates;

such periodical payments for such term as may be specified;

(d)

an order that the respondent must pay such lump sum as may be specified—

(i)

to the applicant for the benefit of a child of the family to whom the application relates, or

(ii)

to such a child of the family to whom the application relates.

(2)

The amount of a lump sum required to be paid under sub-paragraph (1)(b) or (d) must not exceed—

(a)

£1,000, or

(b)

such larger amount as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time by order fix for the purposes of this sub-paragraph.

(3)

The power to make an order under sub-paragraph (2) is exercisable by statutory instrument which is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4)

Specified” means specified in the order.