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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-2008-act-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/440",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Maintenance (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-2008-act-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Act, for the purposes of those types of cases falling within Article 3—\n(a) sections 9 and 10 (power to regulate supersession and determination of applications for a variation)\n(b) in Schedule 1 (changes to the calculation of maintenance) paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 to 10, and section 8 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 so far as relating to those paragraphs;\n(c) in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments) sub-paragraphs (4) and (25), and section 38(1) and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 so far as relating to those sub-paragraphs;\n(d) in Schedule 5 (repeals) the repeals relating to—\n(i) Schedule 1 to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, and\n(ii) the Civil Partnership Act 2004,\nand section 39 so far as it relates to those repeals,\nin so far as not already in operation, is 10th December 2012.\n(2) The day appointed for the coming into operation of—\n(a) sections 23 and 24 (power to accept part payment of arrears in full and final satisfaction and to write off arrears); and\n(b) section 26 (meaning of “child”),\nof the Act, in so far as not already in operation, is 10th December 2012.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 33"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/440/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:46.974069+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."
}