{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-5.31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-5.31.json",
  "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/5.31",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.31",
  "heading": "Application under sections 9 and 20 of the 1972 Act",
  "text": "(1) An application under section 9 of the 1972 Act (variation and revocation of maintenance orders) for variation or revocation of a maintenance order shall be brought as an ordinary cause.\n(2) An application under section 20 of the 1972 Act (restriction on enforcement of arrears) for leave to enforce the payment of any arrears due under a maintenance order registered in Scotland shall be made by lodging a minute in the process.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.31 in force at 1.4.1997, see rule 1.1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 9 was amended by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Schedule 11, paragraphs 4 and 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/291/rule/5.31",
    "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."
}