{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-33.9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-33.9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/33.9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "33.9",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Chapter, unless the context requires otherwise—\n“order” means an order made in family proceedings for the payment of money;\n“judgment creditor” means a person entitled to enforce an order under section 5 of the Debtors Act 1869;\n“debtor” means a person liable under an order; and\n“judgment summons” means a summons under section 5 of the Debtors Act 1869 requiring a debtor to attend court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 33.9 substituted (24.8.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1420), rules 1(4), 18 (with rule 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1869 c.62. Section 5 was amended by articles 2 and 3 of the Civil Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2002 ( S.I. 2002/439) and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c.14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/33.9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+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."
}