[F1Payments made to the family courtE+W
34.28ZG.—(1) Where payments are made to the family court by virtue of section 27C or 34A of the 1972 Act, the court officer will send those payments by post to such person or authority as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time direct.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), if it appears to a court officer that any sums payable under a registered order are in arrears, the officer may proceed in the officer’s own name for the recovery of those sums.
(3) Where it appears to the officer that sums payable under the order are in arrears to an amount equal—
(a)in the case of payments to be made monthly or less frequently, to twice the sum payable periodically; or
(b)in any other case, to four times the sum payable periodically,
the officer will proceed in the officer’s own name for the recovery of those sums, unless it appears to the officer that it is unreasonable in the circumstances to do so.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 34 Ch. 2 Section 4 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 124 (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2