{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-5.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-5.4.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/5.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.4",
  "heading": "Maintenance Orders Register",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff clerk shall maintain a Register called “the Maintenance Orders Register” for the purpose of the 1950, 1958 and 1972 Acts, the 1972 Act as amended by any Order in Council, the 1982 Act , the Maintenance Regulation and the 2012 Regulations, Part I of which shall relate to outgoing orders and Part II to incoming orders.\n(2) The sheriff clerk shall make appropriate entries in the Maintenance Orders Register in respect of any action taken by him or notified to him in accordance with the relevant provisions, and shall keep in such manner as he considers appropriate any documents sent to him in connection with any such action.\n(3) Every entry registering a maintenance order shall specify the relevant provision including and where appropriate any Order in Council under which the maintenance order in question is registered.\n(4) When a registered maintenance order is varied, revoked or cancelled, the sheriff clerk shall make an appropriate entry against the entry for the original order.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.4(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(5)(a) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.4(1) substituted (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(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.4(2) 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(5)(b) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 5.4(3) 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(5)(c) (with para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.4 in force at 1.4.1997, see rule 1.1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/291/rule/5.4",
    "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."
}