{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-forfeitures-and-deductions-regulations-2009/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-forfeitures-and-deductions-regulations-2009/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1109",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Forfeitures and Deductions) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-forfeitures-and-deductions-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Deduction from pay – United Kingdom or Sovereign Base Areas maintenance order",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may make an order authorising a deduction to be made from the pay of a relevant person and to be appropriated in or towards satisfaction of a payment which he is required to make under a maintenance order of a court in the United Kingdom or the Sovereign Base Areas.\n(2) An order made under paragraph (1) may only authorise a deduction to be made on or after the date on which the payment is required to be made.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (2), the Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may by order vary an order made under paragraph (1).\n(4) The Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may by order revoke an order made under paragraph (1).\n(5) The Defence Council, or an officer authorised by them, may treat an order made under paragraph (1) as being in suspense during any period in which the relevant person's pay is suspended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1109/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:37.446354+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}