{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008/section-41",
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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/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Pilot schemes",
  "text": "After section 51 of the Child Support Act 1991 insert—\n“Pilot schemes\n51A (1) Any regulations made under this Act may be made so as to have effect for a specified period not exceeding 24 months.\n(2) Regulations which, by virtue of subsection (1), are to have effect for a limited period are referred to in this section as a “pilot scheme”.\n(3) A pilot scheme may provide that its provisions are to apply only in relation to—\n(a) one or more specified areas or localities;\n(b) one or more specified classes of person;\n(c) persons selected by reference to prescribed criteria, or on a sampling basis.\n(4) A pilot scheme may make consequential or transitional provision with respect to the cessation of the scheme on the expiry of the specified period.\n(5) A pilot scheme may be replaced by a further pilot scheme making the same or similar provision.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/6/section/41",
    "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."
}