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The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1993

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Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 618 (C.12)

MAINTENANCE OF DEPENDANTS

The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1993

Made

25th February 1993

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1993.

2.  The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 shall come into force on 5th April 1993.

Mackay of Clashfern ,C.

Dated 25th February 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 5th April 1993 as the day on which the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (c. 56) shall come into force.

The Act makes provision to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 (c. 33) and the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18) in order to enable the new forms of procedure which now apply in proceedings in magistrates' courts in England and Wales under the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22) or the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) to be used for reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders and of claims for the recovery of maintenance.

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