Reciprocal arrangements with other countries
Relationship with the Child Support Agency
These laws are not strictly within the scope of this web site, because
they are not within the jurisdiction of the Child Support Agency. However,
it appears useful to identify them here.
This legislation is about the arrangements available in the UK for handling
child maintenance where one of the parents lives outside the jurisdiction
of the Child Support Agency. All such arrangements have to be arranged
through the courts - the CSA is not involved. (In
Scotland, Scottish courts must be used). Many
of the instruments below refer to the Hague Conference, which had
been running for more than a century helping to develop a framework for
private international law - enabling commerce and social arrangements
to apply internationally across borders. The
conventions of the Hague Conference do not automatically take effect
in the UK. Instead, they provide guidance, and if the UK
decides to put them into operation, it does so via laws such as those
below. Sometimes the UK puts just part of a convention into law - the
UK's Parliament has primacy.
CSA web site - Reciprocal Enforcement
of Maintenance Orders
Acts
| Maintenance Orders (Facilities for
Enforcement) Act 1920 |
Apparently not available on-line.
It appears to be limited to Commonwealth (ex Empire) countries. |
| Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement)
Act 1972 |
Apparently not available on-line.
This is the main relevant Act. |
| Maintenance
Enforcement Act 1991 |
Mainly England and Wales. |
| Maintenance
Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 |
The Act makes provision to amend
the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 and the
Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 in order to enable
the new forms of procedure which now apply in proceedings in magistrates'
courts in England and Wales. |
Statutory Instruments
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