{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/schedule/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/schedule/paragraph-40.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": "schedule/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974",
  "text": "In rule 4B, for paragraph (2)—\n“(2) On receipt of the order and accompanying documents referred to in section 5(5), 7 or 9(6) of the Act—\n(a) the justices' clerk shall fix the date, time and place for a hearing or a directions appointment allowing sufficient time for service under this rule to be effected at least 21 days before the date so fixed; and\n(b) the justices' chief executive shall serve a copy of the order and documents on the resident party, together with a notice stating the date, time and place so fixed.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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/schedule/paragraph/40",
    "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."
}