{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/22",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 5 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907—\n(a) in subsection (2), after the words “Actions of aliment ”, there shall be inserted the words “(other than any action mentioned in sub-section (2A) below) ” ;\n(b) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2)—\n“(2A) Actions, arising out of an application under section 31(1) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, for the recovery of maintenance:” ; and\n(c) in the final proviso, for the words “the second sub-section ” there shall be substituted the words “sub-section (2) or (2A) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(a) repealed (S.) by Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37, SIF 49:3), ss. 28(2), 29(4), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/22/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:00.803749+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."
}