Subject to paragraph (2), the Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may make an order authorising a deduction to be made from the pay of a relevant person and to be appropriated in or towards satisfaction of any obligation of his to make a periodical payment in respect of a child in accordance with a maintenance calculation or maintenance assessment made under the 1991 Act or the 1991 Order.

An order made under paragraph (1) may only authorise a deduction to be made on or after the date on which the relevant person is obliged to make the periodical payment.

Subject to paragraph (2), the Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may by order vary an order made under paragraph (1).

The Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may by order revoke an order made under paragraph (1).

The Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may treat an order made under paragraph (1) as being in suspense during any period in which the relevant person's pay is suspended.