(1)

If a person claims to be entitled under a law of a reciprocating jurisdiction to variation of a registered maintenance liability that is a liability mentioned in regulation 11, the person may apply to the Registrar to have a claim for variation transmitted to the appropriate administrative or judicial authority of the reciprocating jurisdiction.

(2)

If the application relates to a maintenance order and the reciprocating jurisdiction is a party to the Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance, the Registrar must take, on behalf of the person making the application, any action required to be taken by a Transmitting Agency under that Convention to seek the variation.

(3)

The Registrar must not take any action under subregulation (2) unless the Registrar is satisfied that the claim is in accordance with the Convention.

Note
A copy of the English text of the Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance is set out in Schedule 3 to the Family Law Regulations 1984 .