Section 59: Orders for periodical payment: means of payment., Magistrates' Courts Act 1980

In any case where a magistrates' court orders money to be paid periodically by one person (in this section referred to as "the debtor") to another (in this section referred to as "the creditor"), ... the court shall at the same time exercise one of its powers under paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) below .

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The powers of the court are—

the power to order that payments under the order be made directly by the debtor to the creditor;

the power to order that payments under the order be made to the designated officer for the court or for any other magistrates' court;

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In any case where—

the court proposes to exercise its power under paragraph (c) of subsection (3) above, and

having given the debtor an opportunity of opening an account from which payments under the order may be made in accordance with the method of payment proposed to be ordered under that paragraph, the court is satisfied that the debtor has failed, without reasonable excuse, to open such an account,

the court in exercising its power under that paragraph may order that the debtor open such an account.

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The methods of payment referred to in subsection (3)(c) above are the following, that is to say—

payment by standing order; or

payment by any other method which requires one person to give his authority for payments of a specific amount to be made from an account of his to an account of another's on specific dates during the period for which the authority is in force and without the need for any further authority from him.

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Section 59: Orders for periodical payment: means of payment.

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