The Magistrates’ Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) Rules 2011 No. 1329 (L. 10)

PART 5 PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE 1972 ACT

CHAPTER 1 PROCEEDINGS UNDER PART 1 OF THE 1972 ACT

Interpretation

49.—(1) In this Chapter—

“Hague Convention Country” means a country listed in Schedule 1 to the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Hague Convention Countries) Order 1993(1);

“payee”, in relation to a maintenance order, means the person eligible to receive the payments for which the order provides;

“payer”, in relation to a maintenance order, means the person liable to make the payments for which the order provides; and

“reciprocating country” means a country to which Part 1 of the 1972 Act extends.

(2) In this Chapter, an expression defined in the 1972 Act has the meaning given to it in that Act.

(1)

S.I. 1993/593. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/1902, 1999/1318, 2001/2567 and 2002/2838.