{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Republic of Ireland) Rules 1975",
  "text": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Republic of Ireland) Rules 1975 shall be amended by the insertion after rule 4 of the following rules—\n“4A (1) An application under section 3 of the Act for a provisional order or under section 5 of the Act for the variation or revocation of a maintenance order or a provisional order made in the United Kingdom shall be filed in an appropriate form.\n(2) On receipt of such an application the justices' clerk shall—\n(a) fix the date, time and place for a hearing or a directions appointment; and\n(b) notify the applicant of the date, time and place so fixed.\n4B (1) Schedule A1 to these Rules shall apply to proceedings pursuant to rule 4A above.\n(2) In Schedule A1 as it applies to rule 4A,“the resident party” and “the non-resident party” shall be taken to mean—\n(a) in the case of an application for a provisional order, the applicant and the respondent respectively, and\n(b) in the case of an application for the variation or revocation of a maintenance order or a provisional order, the payee and the payer respectively under the order in question.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/617/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:09.634202+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."
}