{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-and-affiliation-orders-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-10",
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  "legislation": "apni/1966/35",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-and-affiliation-orders-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Orders to which this Part applies.",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to maintenance orders made by the High Court, a county court, or a court of summary jurisdiction, other than orders registered under Part II of the Maintenance Orders Act 1950 1950 c.37.\n(1A) This Part, except sections 11, 11A and 14(2) and (3), also applies in accordance with section 36 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 or Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 of 22nd December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters to maintenance orders made by a court in England and Wales or Scotland and registered in Northern Ireland under Part II of the Maintenance Order Act 1950.\n(2) . . . in this Part “maintenance order” means [ an order made outside the United Kingdom and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 1972 c.18 or Part I of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 or] an order for . . ., maintenance or other payments made under any of the following enactments:—\n(a) sections 17(2), 19(2) to (7), 20(2), 22 or 28(1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act (Northern Ireland) 1939 1939 c.13;\n(b) section 4(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 1951 c.7;\n[(bb Article 24, 25(1)( a) or ( d), (2) or (4) or 29(5) or (6)( a) or ( d) of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 1978 NI 15;]\n[(c the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 1980 NI 5;]\n(d) section 1 of the Act of 1924, section 12 of the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 1949 c.1 . . . Article 26 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 [ or section 159 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 1968 c.34;]\n(e) section 11 of the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 . . . section 101 of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 [ or section 156 or 157 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;]\n[(f section 27 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 1978 c.23;]\n(g) Article 21(a) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;\n(h) Article 41 of, or Schedule 1 to, the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n(i) paragraph 2(1)(a) or (d), 33, 34(3) or 36(1)(a) or (d) of Schedule 15, Schedule 16, or paragraph 9 of Schedule 17 so far as that paragraph applies Part 1 of Schedule 15, to the Civil Partnership Act 2004;\nand includes any such order which has been discharged if any arrears are recoverable thereunder.\n(3) Subject to subsection (4) for the purposes of this Part an order for the payment by the defendant of any costs incurred in proceedings relating to a maintenance order, being an order for the payment of costs made while the maintenance order is not registered, shall be deemed to form part of that maintenance order.\n(4) For the purposes of the enforcement under section 12 of an order registered under this Part such costs as are referred to in subsection (3) shall not be deemed to be a periodical payment of money.\n[(5 For the purposes of this Part an order , decision, settlement , arrangement or instrument made outside the United Kingdom and registered in a court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland under—\n(a) Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972,\n(b) Part I of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982,\n(c) Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 of 22nd December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters, or\n(d) the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other forms of Family Maintenance done at The Hague on 23rd November 2007,\nshall be deemed to be a maintenance order made by that court.]\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 NI 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1982 c. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SI 2001/3929"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1980 NI 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1972 c.18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "1978 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "1978 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "1980 NI 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "1972 NI 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "1968 c.34 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "1986 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "1968 c.34 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "1972 NI 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "1992 c. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "1978 c.23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "1995 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "2004 c.33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(5) inserted (18.6.2011) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1484), reg. 9, Sch. 7 para. 17(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Word in s. 10(5) inserted (1.8.2014) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/413), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(5) substituted (1.8.2014) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/413), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(5) substituted (1.8.2014) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/413), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(5) substituted (1.8.2014) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/413), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F23",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(5) substituted (1.8.2014) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/413), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F24",
      "text": "S. 10(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/519), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 2(2)(a) (with reg. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1574, regs. 1, 5(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F25",
      "text": "S. 10(7) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/519), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 2(2)(b) (with reg. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1574, regs. 1, 5(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2010/13",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:01.127729+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."
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