{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Enforcement in county courts.",
  "text": "(1) Where a liability order has been made against a person, the amount in respect of which the order was made, to the extent that it remains unpaid, shall, if a county court so orders, be recoverable by means of a third party debt order or a charging order, as if it were payable under a county court order.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(1) substituted (1.6.2009) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 7 para. 1(10); S.I. 2009/1314, art. 2(2)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 36(2) repealed (1.6.2009) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2009/1314, art. 2(2)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 36 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (5.4.1993) by S.I. 1992/2643, reg.3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 29-41B modified by The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3186), reg. 16(2A) (as inserted (21.2.2003) by S.I. 2003/328, regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 36 modified (10.6.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), ss. 59(6), 62(3); S.I. 2008/1476, art. 2(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/6",
      "affecting_title": "Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/section/36",
    "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."
}