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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-7.16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-7.16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991",
  "path": "rule/7.16",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.16",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this chapter—\n“the Act of 1920” means the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920;\n“the Act of 1950” means the Maintenance Orders Act 1950;\n“the Act of 1958” means the Maintenance Orders Act 1958;\n“the Act of 1965” means the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965;\n“the Act of 1971” means the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971;\n“the Act of 1972” means the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972;\n“English maintenance order” means a maintenance order made in the High Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1920 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1950 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1958 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1965 c. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1971 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1972 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1056",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1247/rule/7.16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:52.905656+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."
}