60 Further amendments of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 as respects Scotland
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60  Further amendments of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 as respects Scotland

(1)     In section 31 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (which relates to applications for the recovery of maintenance in Scotland)—

(a)     . . .

(b)     in subsection (2)—

(i)     after the word “sheriff” where it first occurs there shall be inserted the words “, or (on appeal or remit) the Court of Session,”; and

(ii)     for the words “the sheriff clerk or sheriff clerk depute shall register the order in the prescribed manner in the court” there shall be substituted the words “the order shall be registered forthwith in the prescribed manner in the appropriate sheriff court by the sheriff clerk or sheriff clerk depute of that sheriff court; and where an order of the Court of Session varies or revokes a registered order of the sheriff, the said sheriff clerk or sheriff clerk depute shall amend the register accordingly”;

(c)     after

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