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MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ORDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 3

Variation of orders made before the passing of this Act.

3.(1) Subject to subsection (2), the power of a court of summary jurisdiction
to vary any order under either of the Acts mentioned in sections 1 ... shall
include power so to vary any such order made before the passing of this Act as
to provide for the payment of such increased sums as would have been lawful if
the order had been made after the passing of this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not confer power

(a)to vary any order made before the passing of this Act in so far as it
provides for the payment of funeral expenses; or

(b)to alter any lump sum applied before the passing of this Act for the
maintenance and education of a child under section 4(1) of the Act of 1924
(which enables a court of summary jurisdiction that has made an
affiliation order to commute the payments under the order for a lump sum); ...

Para.(c) rep. by 1980 NI 5 art. 42(2)(b) sch.4

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