{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-28C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-28C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/18",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972",
  "path": "section/28C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28C",
  "heading": "Applications for recovery of maintenance in Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any application which—\n(a) is received by the Lord Chancellor from the appropriate authority in a convention country, and\n(b) is an application by a person in that country for the recovery of maintenance from another person who is for the time being residing in Northern Ireland.\n(2) Subject to sections 28D to 29B of this Act, an application to which this section applies shall be treated for the purposes of any enactment as if it were an application for a maintenance order under the relevant Order, made at the time when the application was received by the Lord Chancellor.\nThis subsection does not confer jurisdiction on a court in Northern Ireland that it would not otherwise have.\n(3) In the case of an application for maintenance for a child (or children) alone, the relevant Order is the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.\n(4) In any other case, the relevant Order is the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980.\n(5) In subsection (3) above, “child” means the same as in Schedule 1 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 28C, 28D, 28E, 29, 29A, 29B substituted for ss. 28C, 29, 29A (N.I.) (4.11.1996) by S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2), art. 185(1), Sch. 9 para. 72 (with Sch. 8 para. 1(1)); S.R. 1996/297, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 28C(2) inserted (7.12.2012) by The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2814), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/18/section/28C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:10.716487+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."
}