{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-47.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/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland;\n“magistrates’ court”, in relation to Northern Ireland, means a court of summary jurisdiction within the meaning of Article 2(2)(a) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.\n(2) References in this Act to a part of the United Kingdom are references to England and Wales, to Scotland, or to Northern Ireland.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 47(3) repealed (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 66(6), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to be construed as including a reference to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly: Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/18/section/47",
    "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."
}