Article 8

After rule 12 of the rules there shall be inserted the following rule:—

“12A

Where the clerk of a magistrates' court in which a maintenance order is registered under Part I of the Act of 1958 receives a notice of cancellation under section 24(3) of the Act from the appropriate officer of the High Court, he shall—

(a)

cause the particulars of such notice to be entered in the register; and

(b)

cancel the registration under the said Part I; and

(c)

give notice of the cancellation to the appropriate officer of the court in Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be, which made the order, that is to say either—

(i)

the Deputy Principal Clerk of Session, in the case of the Court of Session; or

(ii)

the Chief Registrar of the Queen's Bench Division (Matrimonial), in the case of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland.”