{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982/section-23.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": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Savings and consequential amendments.",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in Schedule 8 shall affect—\n(a) the power of any court to vary or recall a maintenance order granted by that court;\n(b) the power of a sheriff court under section 22 of the Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (discharge and variation of maintenance orders registered in sheriff courts) to vary or discharge a maintenance order registered in that court under Part II of that Act; or\n(c) the power of a sheriff court under section 9 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (variation and revocation of maintenance orders registered in United Kingdom courts) to vary or revoke a registered order within the meaning of Part I of that Act.\n(2) The enactments specified in Part II of Schedule 12 shall have effect with the amendments specified there, being amendments consequential on Schedule 8.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1950 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 15(4), 16(5), 23(2), 35(2)(3), 36(6), 37(2), 38, 40(3), 54, Schs. 10–12 and 14 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/27/section/23",
    "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."
}