Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1930

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Persons to whom weekly and other sums are to be paid.

9.—(1) Every affiliation order and every other order made under this Act ordering the payment of any money (other than in respect of the costs of such order) whether in one sum or periodically by the putative father of an illegitimate child shall specify the person to whom such money is to be paid and, subject to the provisions of this Act, the choice of such person shall be in the discretion of the Justice making the order.

(2) Whenever a Justice of the District Court by an affiliation order or any other order under this Act orders the putative father of an illegitimate child to pay any money whether in one sum or periodically such Justice may by such order require such money to be paid to a specified District Court Clerk to be applied by him in such manner as the Justice shall from time to time by order or otherwise direct for the purposes for which such money was so ordered to be paid.

(3) Every weekly sum payable by a putative father under an affiliation order may if the illegitimate child in respect of whom such weekly sum is payable or its mother is in receipt of poor relief be made payable to the local body giving such relief.

(4) Every weekly sum payable by a putative father under an affiliation order which is not made payable to the District Court Clerk or to a local body charged with the administration of relief of the poor shall, if the illegitimate child in respect of whom the same is payable is in the custody of its mother, be made payable to such mother and, if such child is not in the custody of its mother, shall be made payable to the person in whose custody such child is.