Article 14 Variation of consent orders by courts of summary jurisdiction

For Article 22(2) of the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980F1 (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 paragraph—

“(2)

Where the court has made an order under Article 8 for the making of periodical payments by a party to a marriage the court shall have power, on an application made under this Article, 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.” .