(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Rules 1922 (S.R. & O. 1922/1355) to take account of the coming into force of sections 74 and 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (No. 22) which modify the territorial organisation of magistrates and magistrates' courts and section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, that Act which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.