Commentary on Sections Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments Paragraph 22 – Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (c. 39)
934.This Act enables orders made in a High Court or county court to be registered in a magistrates’ court and orders made in a magistrates’ court to be registered in the High Court. Paragraph 22 amends sections 4(5A) and 4(5B) of the 1958 Act which apply section 60(4) to (11) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 regarding the variation of maintenance orders, disregarding certain provisions of specified Acts which by this amendment will include the Civil Partnership Act. It also amends section 4(6B) which excludes variations of certain registered orders made under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 so that the exclusion will be extended to the variation of certain registered orders made under Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act.