Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

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Transmission of periodical payments through District Court clerk.

134.— Notwithstanding anything in this Part, section 50 applies in relation to a maintenance pending suit order, a periodical payments order or a secured periodical payments order, or one of those orders affected by an order under section 131, with all necessary modifications, including—

(a) the reference in section 50(4) to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as a reference to the person to whom payments under the relevant order are required to be made;

(b) the other references in section 50 to the maintenance creditor shall be construed as references to the person on whose application the relevant order was made; and

(c) the references in section 50(3) to the maintenance debtor shall be construed as a reference to the person by whom payments under the relevant order are required to be made.