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MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 10

Orders to which this Part applies.

10.(1) This Part applies to maintenance orders made by the High Court, or a
court of summary jurisdiction, other than orders registered under Part II of
the Maintenance Orders Act 1950.

(2) ... in this Part "maintenance order" means [an order made outside the
United Kingdom and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern
Ireland under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act
1972 or] an order for ..., maintenance or other payments made under any of the
following enactments:

(a)sections 17(2), 19(2) to (7), 20(2), 22 or 28(1) of the Matrimonial Causes
Act (Northern Ireland) 1939;

(b)section 4(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern
Ireland) 1951;

[(c)the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980;]

(d)section 1 of the Act of 1924, section 12 of the Welfare Services Act
(Northern Ireland) 1949 ... [Article 24 of the Supplementary Benefits
(Northern Ireland) Order 1977] [or section 159 of the Children and Young
Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;]

(e)section 11 of the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 ... [Article
23 of the Supplementary Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1977] [or
section 156 or 157 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland)
1968;]

[(f)section 27 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978;]

(3) Subject to subsection (4) for the purposes of this Part an order for the
payment by the defendant of any costs incurred in proceedings relating to a
maintenance order, being an order for the payment of costs made while the
maintenance order is not registered, shall be deemed to form part of that
maintenance order.

(4) For the purposes of the enforcement under section 12 of an order
registered under this Part such costs as are referred to in subsection (3)
shall not be deemed to be a periodical payment of money.

[(5) For the purposes of this Part an order made outside the United Kingdom
and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under
Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 shall be
deemed to be a maintenance order made by that court.]


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