2.—(1) Section 2 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)—
(a)for the words “before or after the commencement of this Part of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “before, on or after5th April 1993”; and
(b)the words “or has assets” shall be omitted.
(3) In subsection (4)—
(a)the words “or has assets” shall be omitted;
(b)the words “and the nature and location of his assets in that country”, in both places where they occur, shall be omitted;
(c)in paragraph (e), the word “and” shall be omittedand after paragraph (f) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:
“(g)if the payer did not appear in the proceedings in which the maintenance order was made, the original or a certified copy of a document which establishes that notice of the institution of the proceedings was served on the payer;
(h)a document which establishes that notice of the order was sent to the payer;and
(i)if the payee received legal aid in the proceedings, a written statement to that effect signed by that officer,”;
(d)after the words “that officer”, where they last occur, there shall be inserted the words “, in the case of a court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, to the Lord Chancellor, or in the case of a court in Scotland,”;and
(e)after the words “transmitted by” there shall be inserted the words “the Lord Chancellor, or, as the case may be,”.