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Maintenance Orders (Enforcement)

Oral Answers to Questions — Police – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1949.

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Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison:

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation in the lifetime of the present Parliament to facilitate the reciprocal enforcement of orders for aliment and maintenance in England and Scotland.

Photo of Mr James Ede Mr James Ede , South Shields

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and I hope that it will be possible to introduce legislation on this subject before long, but I am sorry that I cannot give an undertaking in the sense suggested.

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