# Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, Section 11: Variation of consent orders by magistrates’ courts.


For section 20(2) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (under which the court can vary a consent order by ordering the payment of a lump sum if the consent order provided for the payment of a lump sum) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(2) Where a magistrates’ court has made an order under section 6 of this Act for the making of periodical payments by a party to a marriage the court shall have power, on an application made under this section, to vary or revoke that order and also to make an order for the payment of a lump sum by that party either—
(a) to the other party to the marriage, or
(b) to a child of the family or to that other party for the benefit of that child.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/42/section/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-11
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