The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (United States of America) Order 2007

19.—(1) Amend section 21 as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in the definition of “certificate of arrears”, after the word “officer” insert the words “or , in Scotland, the applicant or his solicitor”;

(b) in the definition of “maintenance order”—

(i) omit the word “and” where it first occurs; and

(ii) after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) an order within the foregoing provisions of this definition made against a payer on the application of a public body which claims reimbursement of sums of money payable under the order with respect to the payee if reimbursement can be obtained by the public body under the law to which it is subject,”;

(c) omit the definition of “provisional order”;

(d) in the definition of “registered order”, insert at the end the words “and ‘registered’ and ‘registration’ shall be construed accordingly”; and

(e) at the end, insert—

““the United States of America” means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and any other jurisdiction of the United States participating in Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (Title 42, United States Code, Chapter 7, subchapter IV, Part D)”

(3) Omit subsection (2).