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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9AMENDMENTS

The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)

66.  In section 3 (power to make provisional maintenance order), for subsection (7) substitute the following subsection—

(7) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—

(a)for subsection (1) there shall be substituted—

(1) Where an application is made to a magistrates' court against a person residing in a reciprocating country and the court would have jurisdiction to determine the application under the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 or the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 if that person—

(a)were residing in Northern Ireland, and

(b)received reasonable notice of the date of the hearing of the application,

the court shall (subject to subsection (2) below) have jurisdiction to determine the application.;

(b)in subsection (4), for references to the High Court there shall be substituted references to the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland..