{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-5.1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/291",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Child Care and Maintenance Rules) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997",
  "path": "rule/5.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the 1950 Act” means the Maintenance Orders Act 1950;\n“the 1958 Act” means the Maintenance Orders Act 1958;\n“the 1972 Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972;\n“the 1982 Act” means the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982;\n“2011 Regulations” means the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011;\n“2012 Regulations” means the International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007) (Scotland) Regulations 2012;\n“clerk of court” means the clerk to the magistrates' court in England or Northern Ireland and, in relation to a county court in England or Northern Ireland, means the registrar of that court;\n“clerk of the magistrates' court” means the clerk to the magistrates' court in England or Northern Ireland as the case may be;\n“Contracting State” means a State bound by the Convention other than an EU Member State;\n“the Convention” means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other forms of Family Maintenance done at The Hague on 23rd November 2007;\n“Convention Maintenance Decision” means a decision, or part of a decision, to which Chapter V of the Convention applies by virtue of Article 19(1) made by—\n(a)a court in a Contracting State; or\n(b)a sheriff;\n“Court in a Hague Convention Country” includes any judicial or administrative authority in a Hague Convention Country;\n...\n...\n“Hague Convention Country” means a country or territory specified in Schedule 1 to the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Hague Convention Countries) Order 1993;\n“Maintenance Decision” has the meaning given to “decision” by Article 2(1) of the Maintenance Regulation;\n“Maintenance Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 of 18th December 2008 including as applied in relation to Denmark by virtue of the Agreement made on 19th October 2005 between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark;\n“Maintenance Regulation State” in the application of any provision in relation to the Maintenance Regulation, refers to any of the Member States;\n“order” includes decree;\n“reciprocating country” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the 1972 Act; ...\n“the Registrar”, in relation to the High Court in England, means the Senior Registrar of the principal Registry of the Family Division of the High Court in England ; and\n...",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 inserted (28.11.2011) by Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/386), paras. 1(1), 9(2)(a) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 inserted (1.8.2014) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/201), paras. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 omitted (2.3.2009) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Child Care and Maintenance Rules) Amendment 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/29), paras. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 omitted (28.11.2011) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/386), paras. 1(1), 9(2)(b) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 substituted (28.11.2011) by Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/386), paras. 1(1), 9(2)(c) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 5.1 omitted (20.11.2000) by Act of Sederunt (Child Care and Maintenance Rules) Amendment 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/388), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.1 inserted (20.11.2000) by Act of Sederunt (Child Care and Maintenance Rules) Amendment 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/388), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.1 in force at 1.4.1997, see rule 1.1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1950 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1958 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1982 c. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/291/rule/5.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:57.022825+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}