Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1930

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Variation of weekly sums.

5.—(1) A Justice of the District Court may at any time on the application of the person by whom a weekly sum is payable under an affiliation order or of the person to whom such weekly sum is payable or of a person claiming to be the proper person to receive such weekly sum do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) vary the amount of such weekly sum;

(b) change the person to whom such weekly sum is payable;

(c) vary all or any of the conditions relating to the payment or the receipt of such weekly sum.

(2) A Justice of the District Court may at any time, on the application of the person by whom a weekly sum is payable under an affiliation order and on being satisfied that the liability for the payment of such weekly sum has ceased under this Act or on being satisfied that justice requires that such liability should cease, terminate such weekly sum as from such date as he shall think proper but not so as to confer a right to recover any moneys paid in respect of such weekly sum before the date of the order effecting such termination.