Maintenance Orders Act 1950

30 Repeal and transitory provision

(1) Section six of the Summary Jurisdiction (Process) Act, 1881, is hereby repealed.

(2) Until the date on which section fifteen of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, comes into force references in this Act to that section shall be construed as references to section twenty-nine of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879.

(3) Until the date on which section nineteen of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, comes into force—

(a) the reference to section twenty-one of that Act in section twenty-eight of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the Affiliation Orders Act, 1914 ; and

(b) section four of the Married Women (Maintenance) Act, 1949 (which requires collecting officers to take proceedings for enforcement in certain cases), shall apply to any order registered under Part II of this Act in a court of summary jurisdiction in England as it applies to an order made under the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, and references in the said section four to the married woman shall be construed accordingly.