{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/37",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Expenses of action.",
  "text": "The expenses incurred by a person in pursuing or defending—\n(a) an action for aliment brought—\n(i) by either party to a marriage, or\n(ii) by either party in a civil partnership,\non his own behalf against the other party or partner,\n(b) an action for divorce, separation (whether of the parties to a marriage or the civil partners in a civil partnership), declarator of marriage or declarator of nullity of marriage;\n(bb) an action for dissolution of a civil partnership, declarator that a civil partnership exists or declarator of nullity of a civil partnership,\n(c) an application made after the commencement of this Act for variation or recall of a decree of aliment or an order for financial provision in an action brought before or after the commencement of this Act,\nshall not be regarded as necessaries for which the other party to the marriage or the other partner in the civil partnership is liable.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 26(1)(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 22(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 26(1)(b); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 26(1)(c); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 22(bb) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 26(1)(d); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 22 inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 26(1)(e); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/37/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:15.003147+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."
}