{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) Her Majesty may from time to time appoint a Chief Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland and other Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland.\n(2) The Chief Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland and the other Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland shall be appointed from among persons who are barristers or solicitors of not less than 7 years’ standing.\n(3) Schedule 4 shall have effect with respect to Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland ...\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), s. 5(7), Sch. 4 para. 22 (with Sch. 5 para. 16); S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Figure in s. 23(2) substituted (21.7.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 10 para. 22(3); S.I. 2008/1653, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(3) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 83"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 23(4)(5) repealed (2.12.1999) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), ss. 100(2), 101(3), Sch. 15 (with s. 95, Sch. 14); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 applied (18.6.1992) by S.I. 1991/2628, art. 2; S.R. 1992/278, art.2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/26",
      "affecting_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/26",
      "affecting_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:00.270775+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."
}