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Maintenance Orders Act 1968
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Maintenance Orders Act 1968
1968 CHAPTER 36
An Act to amend the enactments relating to matrimonial, guardianship and affiliation proceedings so far as they limit the weekly rate of the maintenance payments which may be ordered by magistrates’ courts.
[3rd July 1968]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at 3.8.1968 see s. 3(3)
1 Increase of maximum payments for children.E+W
The enactments described in the Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that Schedule, being amendments removing the limits of fifty shillings and seven pounds ten shillings imposed by those enactments upon the weekly rate of the payments for the maintenance of a child, and for the maintenance of a party to a marriage, which may be required by order of a magistrates’ court thereunder.
2 Supplementary.E+W
Any order made by a magistrates’ court before the date of the commencement of this Act may be varied so as to include, from the date of the variation, provision for the payment of such increased sums as would have been lawful if the order had been made after the first mentioned date.
3 Short title, extent, commencement and repeal.E+W
(1)This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act 1968.
(2)This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
(3)This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(4)Section 15 of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates’ Courts) Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
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C2The text of s. 3(4), Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not, except as specified, reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Section 1
SCHEDULEE+W Enactments Amended
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C3The text of s. 3(4), Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not, except as specified, reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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F1Entry repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
F2Entries repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1970 (c. 31), Sch. 11 and Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970 (c. 45), s. 42(2), Sch. 3
F3Entry repealed by Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22, SIF 49:3), Sch. 3
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