SCHEDULE 4CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)

6.

In section 108 M1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (reduction of expenditure on income support: certain maintenance orders to be enforceable by the Secretary of State), in subsection (4)—

F1(a)

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(b)

after paragraph (aa) insert—

“(ab)

to apply for recognition and enforcement of the maintenance order under the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other forms of Family Maintenance done at The Hague on 23rd November 2007, to the extent permitted by Article 36 of that Convention; and”.