RECIPIENTS OF CONTRIBUTIONS

HC Deb 17 July 1968 vol 768 cc1548-9

Mr. Ross

I beg to move Amendment No. 60, in page 48, line 1, after '79', insert: (1) Subject to the provisions of the following subsection.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this Amendment the House could conveniently take Amendments Nos. 62, 72, 75, 76, 78, 80 and 83.

Mr. Ross

This group of Amendments, together with the Amendments proposed in Schedule 7 to the Maintenance Orders Act, 1950, are designed to provide the appropriate machinery for ensuring that contributions are paid by and orders and decrees may be enforced against the contributors—the mothers and fathers, living in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. This machinery was laid down in the 1950 Act and the machinery and wording here follows closely that of Schedule 1 to the Act, which is repealed for Scotland insofar as it relates to The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, which, as applied by the Children Act 1948 and the 1950 Act, contains the present provisions relating to contributions by mothers and fathers.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: No. 67, in line 4, after 'care', insert ', or under the supervision'.

Amendment No. 62, in line 11, at end insert: (2) Where a contributor is for the time being residing in England or Wales or Northern Ireland contributions payable by him under the last foregoing section shall be payable to the local authority having the care or supervision of the child.—[Mr. Ross.]