{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983/schedule/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983/schedule/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Rule 60 for paragraphs (2) and (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—\n“(2) Any sum paid to the clerk of a magistrates' court on any date by a person liable to make payments under 2 or more periodical payments orders which is less than the total sum required to be paid on that date to that clerk by that person in respect of those orders (being orders one of which requires payments to be made for the benefit of a child to the person with whom the child has his home and one or more of which requires payments to be made to that person either for his own benefit or for the benefit of another child who has his home with him) shall be apportioned between the orders in proportion to the amounts respectively due under each order over a period of one year and if, as a result of the apportionment, the payments under any such order are no longer in arrears the residue shall be applied to the amount due under the other order or (if there is more than one other order) shall be apportioned as aforesaid between the other orders.\n(3) For the purposes of calculating the apportionment of any sum under paragraph (2)—\n(a) a month shall be treated as consisting of 4 weeks; and\n(b) a year shall be treated as consisting of 52 weeks.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/523/schedule/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:03:48.248383+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."
}