HL Deb 29 June 1982 vol 432 cc184-5

35 Schedule 7, page 80, line 29, at end insert— (and provided also that—

  1. (a) where a local authority exercises its power to raise an action under section 44(7) (a) of the National Assistance Act 1948 or under section 81(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; and
  2. (b) where the Secretary of State exercises his power to raise an action under section 19(8)(a) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976;
this Rule shall apply as if the reference to the maintenance creditor were a reference to the mother of the child);".

Lord Mackay of Clashfern

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 35. This amendment improves the Bill concerning the provision for Scottish courts to make maintenance orders. It ensures that in these cases in which a local authority or the Secretary of State is presently entitled by statute to raise an action for of affiliation and aliment in the sheriff court for the mother's place of residence against a defender resident in another part of the United Kingdom, the local authority or the Secretary of State will continue to be able to do so in future.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in their said amendment.—(Lord Mackay of Clashfern.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.