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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-collection-and-enforcement-of-other-forms-of-maintenance-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2643",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Collection and Enforcement of Other Forms of Maintenance) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-collection-and-enforcement-of-other-forms-of-maintenance-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 30(1) of the Child Support Act 1991 enables the Secretary of State to arrange for the collection of prescribed kinds of periodical payments where they are payable to or for the benefit of someone who falls within a prescribed category and he is also arranging forthe collection of child support maintenance.\nThese Regulations prescribe the kinds of payments which may be collected and the categories of persons to whom they are payable (regulation 2). Regulations 3 and 4 apply in relation to, respectively, England and Wales and Scotland. They apply various provisions of the Act relating to the collection and enforcement of child support maintenance to the periodical payments that may be collected under section 30(1), and also, in relation to Scotland only, enable the Secretary of State to bring any proceedings or take any other steps (other than diligence against earnings) which the person entitled to the payments could have brought or taken.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2643/note",
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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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