{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jurisdiction-and-judgments-family-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jurisdiction-and-judgments-family-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/519",
  "legislation_title": "The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jurisdiction-and-judgments-family-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "text": "(1) The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 19 (jurisdiction of the court)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraphs (1A) and (2)” substitute “paragraph (1A)”;\n(b) in paragraph (1A), for the words from “where” to the end substitute “in relation to which Article 18 of the 2007 Hague Convention applies, the court may not entertain the application or that part of it except where permitted by Article 18”;\n(c) in paragraph (3), for the words from ““The Maintenance Regulation”” to the end substitute ““The 2007 Hague Convention” means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance concluded on 23 November 2007 at The Hague”.\n(3) In Article 20 (duty of the court to consider whether Northern Ireland is the appropriate venue for application)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), omit “Subject to paragraph (3),”;\n(b) omit paragraph (3);\n(c) omit paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 18(2) substituted (17.12.2020) by The Jurisdiction, Judgments and Applicable Law (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1574), regs. 1, 5(3)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/677 (N.I. 4), amended by S.I. 2011/1484; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 18 in force on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/519/schedule/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:10.964039+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."
}