HC Deb 20 June 1958 vol 589 cc1479-80

Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 17, leave out "section" and insert "subsection".

Mr. Moyle

I beg to move. That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

Here, again, I suggest that this Amendment and the next Amendment on the Notice Paper, in line 20, should be taken together, because this Amendment is really a paving Amendment to the subsequent one in line 20.

Both Amendments ensure that the court has complete powers to make orders for the payment of maintenance or any financial payment in the interests of the child affected by the broken marriage to any third party or to the child direct. The third party, of course, will include the local authority, for example, to the care of which the child is committed by the court.

Question put and agreed to.

Further Lords Amendment made: In line 20, at end insert: (2) In any case where the court would have power, on an application made under subsection (1) of the said section twenty-three, to order the husband to make to the wife periodical payments for the maintenance of any such child as is referred to in that subsection, the court may, if it thinks fit, order those payments to be made to the child, or to any other person for the benefit of the child, instead of to the wife; and the reference to the wife in subsection (2) of that section (which relates to security for maintenance) shall be construed accordingly.—[Mr. Moyle.]