Part III Amendments of other Enactments relating to Domestic Proceedings

Amendments of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972

55 Interpretation of Part I of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 as respects Scotland. X1

In section 21 of the M1Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (which relates to the interpretation of Part I of that Act)—

a

in subsection (1)—

i

the definition of “maintenance ”shall cease to have effect ; and

ii

after the words “liable to maintain ” in paragraph (a) of the definition of “maintenance order ” there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

aa

an order which has been made in Scotland, on or after the granting of a decree of divorce, for the payment of a periodical allowance by one party to the marriage to the other party ;

b

in subsection (2), after the words “subsection (1) above ” there shall be inserted the words “, to the payment of a periodical allowance as mentioned in paragraph (aa) of that definition, ”.