{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-hague-convention-countries-order-1993/schedule-3/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-hague-convention-countries-order-1993/schedule-3/paragraph-11.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Steps to be taken by Lord Chancellor or Secretary of State where payer under certain orders is not residing in the United Kingdom.",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State that the payer under a maintenance order, a certified copy of which has been received by him from a Hague Convention country, is not residing in the United Kingdom or, in the case of an order which subsequently became a registered order, has ceased to reside therein, he shall send to the appropriate authority in that country–\n(a) the certified copy of the order in question and a certified copy of any order varying that order;\n(b) if the order has at any time been a registered order, a certificate of arrears signed by the prescribed officer;\n(c) a statement giving such information as the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State possesses as to the whereabouts of the payer; and\n(d) any other relevant documents in his possession relating to the case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 11 in force at 5.4.1993, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/593/schedule/3/paragraph/11",
    "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."
}