{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982/schedule-3G/part/chapter-III/crossheading-available-applications",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982/schedule-3G/part/chapter-III/crossheading-available-applications.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/27",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/3G/part/chapter/III/crossheading/available-applications",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "Article 10",
  "heading": "Available applications",
  "text": "(1) The following categories of application shall be available to a creditor in a requesting State seeking to recover maintenance under this Convention—\n(a) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a decision;\n(b) enforcement of a decision made or recognised in the requested State;\n(c) establishment of a decision in the requested State where there is no existing decision, including where necessary the establishment of parentage;\n(d) establishment of a decision in the requested State where recognition and enforcement of a decision is not possible, or is refused, because of the lack of a basis for recognition and enforcement under Article 20, or on the grounds specified in Article 22 (b) or (e);\n(e) modification of a decision made in the requested State;\n(f) modification of a decision made in a State other than the requested State.\n(2) The following categories of application shall be available to a debtor in a requesting State against whom there is an existing maintenance decision—\n(a) recognition of a decision, or an equivalent procedure leading to the suspension, or limiting the enforcement, of a previous decision in the requested State;\n(b) modification of a decision made in the requested State;\n(c) modification of a decision made in a State other than the requested State.\n(3) Save as otherwise provided in this Convention, the applications in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be determined under the law of the requested State, and applications in paragraphs 1 (c) to (f) and 2 (b) and (c) shall be subject to the jurisdictional rules applicable in the requested State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3G inserted (31.12.2020) by Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020 (c. 24), s. 4(3), Sch. 4 (with s. 3(1), Sch. 5 para. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/27/schedule/3G/part/chapter/III/crossheading/available-applications",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:10.218317+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."
}