Section 36 | Registration Of Maintenance Orders In Northern Ireland | Civil Jurisdiction And Judgments Act 1982 C27

36 Registration of maintenance orders in Northern Ireland

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (1982 c 27) | Legislation

36 Registration of maintenance orders in Northern Ireland

(1) Where—

(a) a High Court order or a Court of Session order has been registered in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland (“the Northern Ireland High Court”) under Part II of the Maintenance Orders Act 1950; or

(b) a [family] court order or a sheriff court order has been registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under that Part,

an application may be made to the original court for the registration of the order in, respectively, a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland or the Northern Ireland High Court.

(2) In subsection (1) “the original court”, in relation to an order, means the court by which the order was made.

(3) Section 2 (except subsection (6A)) and section 2A of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 shall have effect for the purposes of an application under subsection (1), and subsections (2), (3), (4) and (4A) of section 5 of that Act shall have effect for the purposes of the cancellation of a registration made on such an application, as if—

(a) “registration” in those provisions included registration in the appropriate Northern Ireland court (“registered” being construed accordingly);

(b)