{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008/section-33",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/6",
  "legislation_title": "Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Power to write off arrears",
  "text": "After section 41D of the Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48) (inserted by section 32 of this Act) insert—\n“Power to write off arrears\n41E (1) The Secretary of State may extinguish liability in respect of arrears of child support maintenance if it appears to the Secretary of State—\n(a) that the circumstances of the case are of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State, and\n(b) that it would be unfair or otherwise inappropriate to enforce liability in respect of the arrears.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision with respect to the exercise of the power under subsection (1).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 33 substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 3(2), Sch. para. 85"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 33 substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 3(2), Sch. para. 85"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33 wholly in force; s. 33 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 62; s. 33 in force for certain purposes at 8.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2523, art. 2(2)(d); s. 33 otherwise in force at 10.12.2012 by S.I. 2012/3042, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/6/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:10.634132+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."
}