Statutory Instruments
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
PROCEDURE
Made
28th July 1983
Laid before Parliament
1st August 1983
Coming into Operation
1st September 1983
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, as extended by section 18(1) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, and after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:-
1. These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1983 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1983.
2. In these Rules "the principal Rules" means
3. Schedule 1 to the principal Rules shall be amended by inserting after the words "United Republic of Tanzania (except Zanzibar)" the following words:-
"Papua New Guinea
Zimbabwe".
4. Schedule 2 to the principal Rules shall be amended by inserting after the words "United Republic of Tanzania (except Zanzibar)" the following words:-
"Anguilla
Falkland Islands and Dependencies
St. Helena".
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C
Dated 28th July 1983
These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974. Rules 3 and 4 add to Schedule 1 (reciprocating countries to which documents are transmitted via the Secretary of State) and Schedule 2 (countries and territories in which sums are payable through Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations) certain of the countries and territories which are designated as reciprocating countries for the purposes of Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 by the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1125) which comes into operation on the same date as these Rules.
amended by S.I. 1975/2236, 1979/170.