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The Child Care Act 1980 (c.5)E+W

75E+WIn section 47 of that Act, for subsection (4) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

(4)A contribution order shall be enforceable as a magistrates’ court maintenance order within the meaning of section 150(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, except that any powers conferred on a magistrates’ court by that Act shall as respects a contribution order be exercisable, and exercisable only, by a magistrates’ court appointed for the commission area where the contributor is for the time being residing.

(5)Where a contribution order is made requiring the father of a child whose parents were not married to each other at the time of his birth to make contributions in respect of the child, the father shall keep the local authority to whom the contributions are required to be made informed of his address; and if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.

76E+WSections 49 and 50 of that Act (affiliation orders) shall cease to have effect.

77E+WIn section 55 of that Act—

(a)subsection (3) shall cease to have effect;

(b)in subsection (5) the words from “and any jurisdiction conferred by this section in affiliation proceedings” to the end shall cease to have effect.

78E+WIn section 86 of that Act for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “ of an order made by a court under section 47 or 48 of this Act ”.

79(1)Section 87 of that Act shall be amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (1), in the definition of “relative” the words from “and includes” to the end shall cease to have effect.

(3)After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(1A)In this Act—

(a)references to a child whose father and mother were not married to each other at the time of his birth; and

(b)except in Part I and sections 13, 24, 64 and 65, references (however expressed) to any relationship between two persons,

shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987.

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