Lieut.-Commander Hutchisonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will enter into negotiations with the Governments of the Dominions to provide for the reciprocal enforcement of orders for aliment and maintenance in cases where a man has sought to evade his legal obligations by changing his country of residence, and has left his wife and family to be supported from public funds.
§ Mr. EdeThe Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, already provides for the reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders between England, Wales and Northern Ireland and those parts of His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom to which the164W Act has been extended by Order in Council. I am sending to the hon. Member a list of those parts of His Majesty's dominions to which the Act at present applies.