HC Deb 05 April 1973 vol 854 c125W
30. Mr. Lipton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in arranging that magistrates' courts shall send by post to mothers, wives or ex-wives moneys paid under maintenance orders, thus making calls in person unnecessary.

Mr. Carlisle

My noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor hopes to lay before Parliament later this month new magistrates' courts rules requiring justices' clerks to pay maintenance by post unless the woman entitled to the payments indicates that she prefers to collect them in person from the court.

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