Sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) apply in relation to expenditure incurred under section 47(8) of the 1948 Act in connection with the maintenance of any particular person (“A”).

In sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) “liability proceedings” means proceedings for the expenditure's recovery under section 47(9) of the 1948 Act from a person other than A if the proceedings are brought against that other person (“B”) on account of B having, at a time before the appointed day, been for the purposes of the 1948 Act liable to maintain A.

No liability proceedings may be begun, or continued, on or after the appointed day; but this is subject to sub-paragraph (5).

Where liability proceedings begun before the appointed day resulted in a court making an order before that day for the recovery of the expenditure from B, this Act does not prevent the enforcement of the order (whether by proceedings or otherwise) on or after the appointed day.

In this paragraph “the appointed day” means the day appointed under this Act for the coming into force of section 147(1)(b).