The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 1970

Made: 15th May 1970

Laid before Parliament: 22nd May 1970

Coming into Operation: 1st July 1970

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by Section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, as extended by section 122 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 15, hereby makes the following Rules:—

1

These Rules may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 1970 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1970.

2

In Rule 6 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 1922[^f00001] there shall be inserted, after the words “originally issued” where first occurring, the words “or to such other person or authority as that court or the Secretary of State may from time to time direct”.

Signed

Gardiner, C — Dated 15th May 1970

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Rule 6 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 1922 provides that the person collecting money due under a maintenance order registered or confirmed in England under the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 shall send that money to the court from which the order originally issued. These Rules amend Rule 6 to enable the money collected to be sent to such other person or authority as the court which made the order or the Secretary of State may from time to time direct.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: (Rev. XIII, p. 128: 1922, p. 526).