PART 34E+WRECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE ORDERS

CHAPTER 3E+WENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE ORDERS UNDER THE CIVIL JURISDICTION AND JUDGMENTS ACT 1982,THE JUDGMENTS REGULATION [F1, THE MAINTENANCE REGULATION] [F2, THE 2007 HAGUE CONVENTION] AND THE LUGANO CONVENTION

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Pt. 34 Ch. 3 heading inserted (18.6.2011) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1328), rules 1, 23

SECTION 1E+WRegistration and Enforcement in a Magistrates' Court of Maintenance Orders made in a Contracting State to the 1968 Convention, a Contracting State to the 1988 Convention, a Regulation State [F3, a State bound by the 2007 Hague Convention other than a Member State of the European Union] or a State bound by the Lugano Convention

Textual Amendments

F3Words in Pt. 34 Ch. 3 Section 1 heading inserted (20.12.2012) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2012 (S.I. 2012/2806), rules 1, 22

Enforcement of payments under registered ordersE+W

34.33.—(1) This rule applies where a court has ordered periodical payments under a registered maintenance order to be made to the court officer for a magistrates' court.

(2) The court officer must take reasonable steps to notify the payee of the means of enforcement available.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where periodical payments due under a registered order are in arrears.

(4) The court officer, on that officer's own initiative—

(a)may; or

(b)if the sums due are more than 4 weeks in arrears, must,

proceed in that officer's own name for the recovery of the sums due unless of the view that it is unreasonable to do so.