{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1991/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "19th November 1991",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order power to apply (with modifications) conferred (5.12.2008) by Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 10), ss. 3(4), 41(1); S.R. 2008/489, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order: transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 17 para. 42 (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order applied in part (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions and Housing Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/312), regs. 1, 16, Sch. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order applied (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Ending Liability in Existing Cases and Transition to New Calculation Rules) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/191), regs. 1(1), 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order: power to amend conferred by 1998 c. 47, s. 87(4)-(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Order: functions transf. by S.R. 1999/481, Sch. 6 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:21.435585+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."
}