{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Regulations about liability orders: Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) Section 34(1) does not apply to Scotland.\n(2) In Scotland, the Secretary of State may make regulations providing that where the sheriff has made a liability order, the person against whom it is made shall, during such time as the amount in respect of which the order was made remains wholly or partly unpaid, be under a duty to supply relevant information to the Secretary of State.\n(3) In this section “relevant information” has the same meaning as in section 34(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) 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. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 37 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 partly in force; s. 37 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 58(2); s. 37(1) in force at 5.4.1993 by S.I. 1992/2644, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",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/37",
    "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."
}