{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-hague-convention-countries-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-hague-convention-countries-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/593",
  "legislation_title": "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Hague Convention Countries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-hague-convention-countries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972;\n“court in a Hague Convention country” includes any judicial or administrative authority in a Hague Convention country;\n“Hague Convention” means the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Relating to Maintenance Obligations concluded at The Hague on 2nd October 1973; and\n“Hague Convention country” means a country or territory specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, being a country or territory (other than the United Kingdom) in which the Hague Convention is in force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 5.4.1993, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As amended by the Affiliation Proceedings (Amendment) Act 1972 (c. 49), section 3; by the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22), sections 54 and 55 and Schedules 2 and 3; by the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), Schedule 7; by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26); by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 46; by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Schedules 11 and 12; by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), Schedules 2 and 4; by the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 (c. 17), Schedule 1; by S.I. 1992/709; and by the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (c. 56), Schedule 1. There are further amendments to the Act which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/593/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:26.723550+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."
}