{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/72",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Payments towards maintenance of children.",
  "text": "Without prejudice to any existing powers and duties to make payments in respect of the maintenance of children, where a child under the age of eighteen is residing with and being cared for (other than as a foster child) by a person other than a parent of the child, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 may make to that person payments for or towards the maintenance of the child.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 50 substituted (1.11.1996) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 26(3) (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50 substituted (1.10.2001) by 2001 asp 8, s. 71; S.S.I. 2001/304, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/72/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:55.776840+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."
}