§ Mr. CarlisleI beg to move Amendment No. 2, in page 10, line 18, at end insert:
'or to an order which is for the time being registered in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland under Part II of the Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966'.It might be convenient to consider at the same time Amendment No. 4 to the Schedule. The purpose of the two Amendments relates purely to Northern Ireland. Under Part 1 of the Bill, all maintenance orders sent from overseas are to be registered and enforced in the first instance in magistrates' courts. Nevertheless a payee overseas whose order is registered in the magistrates' court in England or Wales is not deprived of the possibility of using the enforcement procedure of the High Court, since Part I of the Maintenance Orders Act, 1958, is to be applied to maintenance orders made overseas and registered under Part I of the Bill. This at the moment does not apply to Northern Ireland, and the purpose of these Amendments, which are proposed after consultation with the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland, is that the same arrangements shall apply in Northern Ireland.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 8, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clause 9 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ It being Ten o'clock, The CHAIRMAN left the Chair to report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.
§ Committee report Progress.