The Magistrates’ Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) Rules 2011

Method of payment

61.—(1) This rule applies where the court exercises its duties or powers under section 27C, 33(3A) or 34A of the 1972 Act.

(2) Where the court orders that payments under the order are to be made by a particular means—

(a) the justices’ clerk will record on the copy of the order the means of payment which the court has ordered; and

(b) the designated officer will notify in writing, as soon as practicable, the person liable to make the payments under the order, how payments are to be made.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where the court orders that payments be made to the designated officer for the court, or to the designated officer for any other magistrates’ court, by a method of payment falling within section 59(6) of the 1980 Act(1).

(4) The designated officer for the court to whom the payments are to be made must notify the person liable to make the payments under the order of sufficient details of the account into which the payments should be made to enable payments to be made into that account.

(1)

Section 59(6) was substituted by section 2 of the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991.