Part I Amendments Consequential on Parts III and IV
Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (1999 c 30) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 12 Consequential Amendments

Section 84

Part I Amendments Consequential on Parts III and IV

Supreme Court Act 1981 (c 54)

1

In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Supreme Court Act 1981, after paragraph (f) there is inserted—

“(fa)     all proceedings relating to a debit or credit under section 29(1) or 49(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999;â€.

Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42)

2

The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 is amended as follows.

3

In section 17, for subsection (1) there is substituted—

“(1)     Subject to section 20 below, on an application by a party to a marriage for an order for financial relief under this section, the court may—

(a)     make any one or more of the orders which it could make under Part II of the 1973 Act if a decree of divorce, a decree of nullity of marriage or a decree of judicial separation in respect of the marriage had been granted in England and Wales, that is to say—

(i)     any order mentioned in section 23(1) of the 1973 Act (financial provision orders); and

(ii)     any order mentioned in section 24(1) of that

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