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SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments

Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)

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In section 47(3) (construction of references to the jurisdiction of a court), for the words from “construed in relation” onwards substitute

construed—

a

in relation to a magistrates' court in England and Wales as a reference to the local justice area in which the court acts, and

b

in relation to a magistrates' court in Northern Ireland as a reference to the petty sessions district for which the court acts.