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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-support-rules-1993/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/920",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Child Support Rules) 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-support-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "–\n(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Child Support Rules) 1993 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.\n(2) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.\n(3) In this Act of Sederunt–\n“the Act of 1991” means the Child Support Act 1991;\n“deduction from earnings order” means an order under section 31(2) of the Act of 1991;\n“liability order” means an order under section 33(2) of the Act of 1991; and\n“liable person” means a person liable to make payments of child support maintenance.\n(4) A reference in rules 1 to 6 of this Act of Sederunt to a numbered form is a reference to the form so numbered in the Schedule to this Act of Sederunt or a form substantially to the same effect, with such modifications as circumstances may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (with savings)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/365",
      "affecting_title": "Act of Sederunt (Child Support Rules) (Amendment) 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/271",
      "affecting_title": "Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) 2012"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/920/article/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}