{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/56",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 17 (proceedings in magistrates’ courts) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (5), after the words “magistrates’ court” there shall be inserted “ in Northern Ireland ”.\n(3) After subsection (5), there shall be inserted—\n“(5A) Where the respondent to an application for the variation or revocation of—\n(a) a maintenance order made by a magistrates’ court in England and Wales, being an order to which section 5 of this Act applies; or\n(b) a registered order which is registered in such a court,\nis residing in a reciprocating country, a magistrates’ court in England and Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear the application (where it would not have such jurisdiction apart from this subsection) if it would have had jurisdiction to hear it had the respondent been residing in England and Wales.”\n(4) In subsection (7)—\n(a) for the word “defendant”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “ respondent ”, and\n(b) for the words “a complaint” and “the complaint”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “ an application ” and “ the application ” respectively.\n(5) After subsection (7), there shall be added—\n“(7A) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland, in subsection (7)—\n(a) for the word “respondent”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “defendant”; and\n(b) for the words “an application” and “the application”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “a complaint” and “the complaint” respectively.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/56/schedule/1/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:27.106057+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."
}