SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Amendments relating to Article 15(1) to (4) etc

PART 1Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972

6.

(1)

Amend section 48 (special provisions relating to Northern Ireland) as follows.

(2)

Omit subsection (1).

(3)

After subsection (5) insert—

“(6)

In the application of this Act to Northern Ireland, for any reference to the Lord Chancellor (including any reference which is treated as a reference to the Lord Chancellor, but not including any such reference in section 49(2)) there shall be substituted a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.”