Guardianship Act 1973

9Consequential amendments, and repeals

(1)In the enactments mentioned in the following subsections there shall be made the amendments there provided for (being amendments consequential on the foregoing provisions of this Act); and the enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.

(2)The words " the Guardianship of Minors Acts 1971 and 1973 " shall be substituted for the words " the Guardianship of Infants Acts 1886 and 1925 " wherever they occurred in any of the following enactments as originally enacted, that is to say—

(a)in the [1949 c. 51.] Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949, in Schedule 1, in paragraph 3(b) of Part I (the proceedings for which legal aid may be given in magistrates' courts);

(b)in the [1952 c. 55.] Magistrates' Courts Act 1952, in sections 52(2), 56(1) and 57(4) (periodical payments through justices' clerk, and definition of " domestic proceedings ");

(c)in the [1970 c. 31.] Administration of Justice Act 1970, in Schedule 1 (High Court business assigned to Family Division).

(3)The following enactments, as amended by the [1971 c. 3.] Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 (which as so amended relate to the enforcement of orders under that Act for the payment of money) shall be further amended as follows:—

(a)in the [1951 c. 65.] Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951, in section 2(1)(d), after the words "the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971" there shall be inserted the words " or under section 2(4)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1973 ";

(b)in the [1950 c. 37.] Maintenance Orders Act 1950, in section 16(2)(a)(iii), and in the Administration of Justice Act 1970, in Schedule 8, in paragraph 4(a), and in the [1971 c. 32.] Attachment of Earnings Act 1971, in Schedule 1, in paragraph 5(a), after the words " the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 " there shall in each case be inserted the words " or section 2(3) or 2(4)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1973 ";