A LAW to amend the Maintenance Orders (Enforcement) (Jersey) Law 1999

THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

“2B   Direction for registration of maintenance order

(1)     The Royal Court or the Petty Debts Court, as the case may be, may –

(a)     when making a maintenance order or at any time after that; and

(b)     on the application of the recipient,

direct that the maintenance order be registered in the Public Registry.

(2)     Upon registration pursuant to a direction under paragraph (1), the maintenance order shall take effect as a judicial hypothec upon the immovable property of the payer as if –

(a)     it were an act or judgment of the Court to which Article 13 of the Loi (1880) sur la propriété foncière[2] applied; but

(b)     securing such amounts, accruing from time to time, as the payer is liable to pay pursuant to the order.

(3)     A registration under this Article shall be cancelled only if the Court gives, on the application of the recipient or the payer, a further direction to such effect.

(4)     The Court shall not make a direction for registration under paragraph (1) unless it has given the payer an opportunity to be heard.”.