{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-29.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/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Applications by spouses under the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980.",
  "text": "(1) The magistrates’ court hearing an application which by virtue of section 28C of this Act is to be treated as if it were an application for a maintenance order under the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 may make any order on the application which it has power to make under Article 4 or 20(1) of that Order.\n(2) That Order shall apply in relation to such an application, and to any order made on such an application, with the following omissions—\n(a) Articles 8 to 10, 18, 19, 21, 22A, 25(1), 27 to 29 and 30(1A),\n(b) in Article 32(1) the words “either the applicant or”, and\n(c) Article 36(1).\n(3) Subsections (1) and (2) above do not apply where section 29A of this Act applies.",
  "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/18/section/29",
    "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."
}