{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following Rules are amended in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule to these Rules:—\n(i) the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 1922 and the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules 2000;\n(ii) the Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules 1950;\n(iii) the Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act 1958) Rules 1959;\n(iv) the Magistrates' Courts (Backing of Warrants) Rules 1965;\n(v) the Magistrates' Courts (Attachment of Earnings) Rules 1971;\n(vi) the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974;\n(vii) the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Republic of Ireland) Rules 1975;\n(viii) the Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) Rules 1975;\n(ix) the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Hague Convention Countries) Rules 1980;\n(x) the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981;\n(xi) the Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984;\n(xii) the Magistrates' Courts (Discontinuance of Proceedings) Rules 1986;\n(xiii) the Magistrates' Courts (Child Abduction and Custody) Rules 1986;\n(xiv) the Magistrates' Courts (Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982) Rules 1986;\n(xv) the Magistrates' Courts (Family Law Act 1986) Rules 1988;\n(xvi) the Magistrates' Courts (Notices of Transfer) Rules 1988;\n(xvii) the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989;\n(xviii) the Magistrates' Courts (Social Security Act 1986) (Transfer of Orders to maintain and Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1990;\n(xix) the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (International Co-operation)) Rules 1991;\n(xx) the Family Proceedings (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991;\n(xxi) the Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) Rules 1991;\n(xxii) the Magistrates' Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Drug Trafficking Cash) Rules 1991;\n(xxiii) the Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991;\n(xxiv) the Magistrates' Courts (Costs Against Legal Representatives in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1991;\n(xxv) the Magistrates' Courts (Attendance Centre) Rules 1992;\n(xxvi) the Magistrates' Courts (Notice of Transfer) (Children’s Evidence) Rules 1992;\n(xxvii) the Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1992;\n(xxviii) the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1993;\n(xxix) the Family Proceedings Courts (Child Support Act 1991) Rules 1993;\n(xxx) the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Disclosure) Rules 1997;\n(xxxi) the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Confidentiality) Rules 1997;\n(xxxii) the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Tainted Acquittals) Rules 1997;\n(xxxiii) the Magistrates' Courts (Sex Offender and Anti-social Behaviour Orders) Rules 1998;\n(xxxiv) the Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. 1922/1355, amended by S.I. 1970/762, S.I. 1989/384, S.I. 1992/457, S.I. 1993/617 and S.I. 2000/1875."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1875."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1950/2035, amended by S.I. 1980/1895 and S.I. 1992/457."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1959/3, the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1896, S.I. 1986/1962 and 1992/457."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/1906, amended by S.I. 1989/1596."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/809."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/668; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1975/2236, S.I. 1979/170, S.I. 1986/1962, S.I. 1992/457 and S.I. 1998/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/286, amended by S.I. 1992/457 and S.I. 1993/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/488, amended by S.I. 1979/1561, S.I. 1980/1584 and S.I. 1993/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/108; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/1962, S.I. 1992/457 and S.I. 1993/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/553; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/1333, S.I. 1988/2132 and S.I. 1995/585."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/611; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/367."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1141; the amending instrument is not relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1962, amended by S.I. 1992/457 and S.I. 1993/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/329, amended by S.I. 1991/1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1701, amended by S.I. 1997/708."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1597."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1909."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f20",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1074."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f21",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1395; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/1991, S.I. 1992/2068, S.I. 1994/2166, S.I. 1994/3156 and S.I. 1997/1895."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f22",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1405; the amending instruments are not relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f23",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1923, amended by S.I. 1994/3154."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f24",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1991; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/2068, S.I. 1993/627 and 1997/1894."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f25",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2096"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f26",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2069."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f27",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2070, amended by S.I. 1997/709."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f28",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2071; the amending instruments are not relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f29",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/617."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f30",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/627."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f31",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/703."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f32",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/704."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f33",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1055."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f34",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2682."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f35",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/681."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2804",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/615/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:00:41.168890+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."
}