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Section 34 Regulations about liability orders.C1I1C2

England, Wales and Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The Secretary of State may make regulations in relation to England and Wales—

(a)

prescribing the procedure to be followed in dealing with an application by the F1Secretary of State for a liability order;

(b)

prescribing the form and contents of a liability order; and

(c)

providing that where a magistrates’ court has made a liability order, the person against whom it is made shall, during such time as the amount in respect of which the order was made remains wholly or partly unpaid, be under a duty to supply relevant information to the F2Secretary of State.

(2)

In subsection (1) “relevant information” means any information of a prescribed description which is in the possession of the liable person and which the F3Secretary of State has asked him to supply.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 34(1)(a) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 44

F2

Words in s. 34(1)(c) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 44

F3

Words in s. 34(2) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 44

Modifications

C1

S. 34 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (5.4.1993) by S.I. 1992/2643, reg.3

C2

Ss. 29-41B modified by The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3186), reg. 16(2A) (as inserted (21.2.2003) by S.I. 2003/328, regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(b))

Commencement

I1

S. 34 partly in force; s. 34 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 58(2); s. 34(1) in force at 17.6.1992 by S.I. 1992/1431, art. 2, Sch.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Word in Act substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), ss. 1(2)(b), 86(1)(a)(2) (with ss. 28, 83(6)); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch.