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MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 24

Short title and commencement.

24.(1) This Act may be cited as the Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act
(Northern Ireland) 1966.

(2) Commencement1. Where an affiliation order made before the passing of
this Act had, before that date, ceased to be in force by reason of the child
to whom the order relates attaining, in the case of a male child fifteen
years, and in the case of a female child sixteen years, section 5 shall,
subject to paragraph 2, where the child has not attained the age of twenty-one
years at the making of a complaint, apply to that order and the order may be
revived accordingly.

2. Where an affiliation order made before the passing of this Act in respect
of a male child, had

(a)before that date, ceased to be in force by reason of the child to whom the
order relates attaining the age of fifteen years; and

(b)at the said date the child has not attained the age of sixteen years;

Para.3 rep. by 1980 NI 5 art.42(2)(b) sch.4



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