{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-32B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-32B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/32B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32B",
  "heading": "Orders under section 32A: joint accounts",
  "text": "(1) Before making an order under section 32A in respect of a joint account the Secretary of State shall offer each of the account-holders an opportunity to make representations about—\n(a) the proposal to make the order; and\n(b) the amounts to be deducted under the order, if it is made.\n(2) The amounts to be deducted from a joint account under such an order shall not exceed the amounts that appear to the Secretary of State to be fair in all the circumstances.\n(3) In determining those amounts the Secretary of State shall have particular regard to—\n(a) any representations made in accordance with subsection (1)(b);\n(b) the amount contributed to the account by each of the account-holders; and\n(c) such other matters as may be prescribed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 32A-32D inserted (1.6.2009 for specified purposes, 3.8.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), ss. 22, 62(3); S.I. 2009/1314, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 32B 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. 1(2), Sch. para. 35"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/section/32B",
    "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."
}