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  "legislation_title": "Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If, in a particular case, any of the interested parties chooses not to stay in the statutory scheme, that person's choice shall be disregarded if any of the other interested parties chooses to stay in the statutory scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in operation at 30.6.2014 by S.R. 2014/194, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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