{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/10",
  "legislation_title": "Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Repeal of Articles 9 and 43",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Child Support Order cease to have effect—\n(a) Article 9 (under which the claim of benefit by or in respect of a parent with care, or the payment of benefit to or in respect of such a person, triggers an application by her or him for child support maintenance), and\n(b) Article 43 (which enables the Department in certain circumstances to reduce the benefit of a person in relation to whom Article 9 triggers the making of an application for child support maintenance).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 wholly in operation at 27.10.2008; s. 7 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 41(1); s. 7(b) in operation at 14.7.2008 by S.R. 2008/291, art. 2(1)(a); s. 7(a) in operation at 14.7.2008 by S.R. 2008/291, art. 2(2)(a) (with art. 2(3)(4)); s. 7(a) in operation at 27.10.2008 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2008/399, art. 2(2)(a) (with art. 3(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/10/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:22.763734+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."
}