In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “judgment” has the meaning given by Article 25;

• “maintenance order” means a maintenance judgment within the meaning of the 1968 Convention F1or, as the case may be, the Lugano Convention;

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

• “prescribed” means prescribed by rules of court.

References in this Part to a judgment registered under section 4 or 5 include, to the extent of its registration, references to a judgment so registered to a limited extent only.

Anything authorised or required by the 1968 Convention F2the Lugano Convention or this Part to be done by, to or before a particular magistrates’ court may be done by, to or before any magistrates’ court acting F3in the same local justice area (or, in Northern Ireland, for the same petty sessions district) as that court.

The enactments specified in Part I of Schedule 12 shall have effect with the amendments specified there, being amendments consequential on this Part.