Article 1

These Rules may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 1999^f1 comes into force.

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f1: 1999 c. 22. Section 78 comes into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor appoints under section 108(1) and substitutes for sections 11 to 20 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) which provide for stipendiary magistrates and metropolitan stipendiary magistrates new sections 10A to 10E which provide for District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) in place of them; paragraph 22 of Schedule 14 provides for any person who is a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time section 78 comes into force to be treated (unless he would be required by reason of his age to vacate his office) as having been appointed to be a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) at that time.