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MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to remove limits on maintenance orders in courts of summary
jurisdiction; to extend the time limit for complaints on the ground
of adultery; and to provide for the return of certain moneys paid
to collecting officers.
[23rd June 1970]
Power to increase amounts payable under existing orders.

MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT
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1.Subs.(1) rep. by SLR 1980

(2) Any order made by a court of summary jurisdiction before 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 commencement of this Act.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1980

S.2 rep. by 1980 NI5 art.42(2)(b) sch.4

MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT
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Return of certain moneys received by collecting officers under orders
for periodical payment.

3.(1) On the hearing of a complaint for the revocation, suspension,
variation or discharge of an order for the periodical payment of
money, a court of summary jurisdiction may order the return to the
person against whom the order was made of the whole or any part
of such part of the sum received under the order by the collecting
officer under section 95 of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern
Ireland) 1964, as can not, at the time of the hearing, be paid to
the person named in the order.

(2) Where a collecting officer makes an application in that behalf,
a court of summary jurisdiction

(a)may order the return to the person against whom an order for
the periodical payment of money has been made of the whole or any
part of such part of the sum received under the order by the
collecting officer under section 95 of the Magistrates' Courts Act
(Northern Ireland) 1964 as can not, at the time of the hearing of
the application, be paid to the person named in the order; and

(b)may suspend any such order.

(3) An application under subsection (2) shall be made in accordance
with magistrates' courts rules and sections 87(2) and 91(2) of the
Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 shall not apply in
relation to the proceedings on any such application.

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) apply to orders for the periodical
payment of money made before or after the commencement of this Act.

MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT
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Short title.

4. This Act may be cited as the Maintenance and Affiliation Orders
Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.

Schedule rep. by 1980 NI5 art.42(2)(b) sch.4; SLR 1980