# Maintenance Orders Act 1958, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W

An Act to make provision for the registration in the High Court or a magistrates’ court of certain maintenance orders made by the order of those courts or a county court and with respect to the enforcement and variation of registered orders; to make provision for the attachment of sums falling to be paid by way of wages, salary or other earnings or by way of pension for the purpose of enforcing certain maintenance orders; to amend section seventy-four of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1952; to make provision for the review of committals to prison by magistrates’ courts for failure to comply with maintenance orders; to enable Orders in Council under section twelve of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, to be revoked or varied; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[7th July 1958]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/39/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958/introduction
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