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Rule 33A.5 Averments about maintenance orders

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In a civil partnership action in which an order for aliment or periodical allowance is sought, or is sought to be varied or recalled, by any party, the pleadings of that party shall contain an averment stating whether and, if so, when and by whom, a maintenance order (within the meaning of section 106 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 F1) has been granted in favour of or against that party or of any other person in respect of whom the order is sought.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1987 c. 18; section 106 wad amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), Schedule 3, paragraph 7(3).

Notes on Schedule First

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, para. 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Modifications

C1

Sch. 1 applied (30.11.2016) by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 21), ss. 121(5), 237(2) (with ss. 232, 234(3), 235, 236); S.S.I. 2016/294, reg. 2

C2

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/301), paras. 1(2), (4), 2 (with para. 1(5))

C3

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Electronic Signature and Electronic Transmission of Documents) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/302), paras. 1(2), 2(1), 3-5