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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-1992/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2644",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Act 1991 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-1992",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 4 below, during the transitional period no application under section 4 of the Act (applications for child support maintenance) in relation to a qualifying child or any qualifying children may be made at any time when—\n(a) there is in force a maintenance order or written maintenance agreement (being an agreement made before 5th April 1993) in respect of that qualifying child or those qualifying children and the absent parent; or\n(b) benefit is being paid to a parent with care of that child or those children.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Part 1 of Sch. substituted (31.3.93) by S.I. 1993/966, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/966",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Support Act 1991 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Amendment Order 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1995/34",
      "affecting_title": "Child Support Act 1995"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2644/schedule/paragraph/2",
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  },
  "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."
}