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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-amendments-to-primary-legislation-scotland-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Amendments to Primary Legislation) (Scotland) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-amendments-to-primary-legislation-scotland-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nUnder the Child Support Act 1991 maintenance assessments can be made requiring the payment of maintenance (aliment) for children. This order amends certain provisions of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 to take account of the effect of the making of a maintenance assessment on existing court orders and agreements for aliment and for financial provision on divorce.\nArticle 2(2) amends section 5 of the 1985 Act so that the making of a maintenance assessment will be regarded as a change of circumstances enabling a party to apply to the court to vary or set aside an existing order affected by that assessment. A similar amendment is made for section 7 (article 2(3)) and section 13 (article 2(4)).\nArticle 2(5) makes it clear that the making of a maintenance assessment will entitle parties to an agreement for financial provision on divorce (for periodical allowance) to go to court to vary or set aside any term relating to periodical allowance.\nAll of the amendments relate to the court’s powers to deal with non child maintenance elements of an order or agreement.\nArticle 2(6) inserts necessary definitions consequential on the amendments made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/660/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:39.508998+00:00"
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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."
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