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7.—(1) Section 48 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (matters for which rules of court may provide) applies in relation to maintenance arrangements as if they were maintenance decisions to which the Convention applies.
(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to maintenance arrangements is to those maintenance arrangements which are to be recognised and enforceable in the same way as maintenance decisions by virtue of Article 30 of the Convention.
(3) In this regulation—
“the Convention” means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other forms of Family Maintenance done at The Hague on 23 November 2007;
“maintenance arrangement” has the meaning given in Article 3(e) of the Convention;
“maintenance decision” means a decision, or part of a decision, to which Chapter V of the Convention applies by virtue of Article 19(1) of the Convention.
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