{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/31",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Other provisions for interpretation of Part II.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“High Court maintenance order” “and family court maintenance order”and . . . mean respectively a maintenance order enforceable by the High Courtand the family court . . . ;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“maintenance order” means any order, decision, settlement, arrangement or instrument specified in Schedule 8 to this Act and includes one which has been dischargedor has otherwise ceased to operate, if any arrears are recoverable thereunder;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154, Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c. 32), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 10 para. 18(2)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(d) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 10 para. 18(2)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(d) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 28(1) inserted (18.6.2011) by The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1484), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 28(1) inserted (7.11.2012 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2814), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 28(1) substituted (18.6.2011) by The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1484), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 28(1) inserted (18.6.2011) by The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1484), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 3(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Ss. 13–26, 27(1)(2), 28(2)–(5), 29(1)–(4), repealed by Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c. 32, SIF 45), s. 29(2), Sch. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:09.937865+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."
}