MAINTENANCE ORDERS
* BILL TO FACILITATE ENFORCEMENT WITHIN THE EMPIRE. (Rec. March 17, 8.35 p.m.) . London, March 18. The House of Lords has carried_ the. second reading 'of a Bill to facilitate the enforcement in the United Kingdom of maintenance orders made in the Dominions and vice versa. The Bill apnliesi*to husbands or others liable who have gon> to another part of the Empire either before or after a maintenance order was made. An order must be duly registered and confirmed in tha country where the liable person is. All the Dominions. except some Canadian provinces, have accepted the principle of the Bill "tid undertaken reciprocal legislation. The Lord Chancellor, in moving the second reading of the' Bill, .said the necessity for the measure had 'been ac-' centuated by the war. .Lord Buckmaster said it was a long overdue instalment of the debt society owed to deserted wifes.—lmperial News Service. .
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 148, 18 March 1920, Page 7
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