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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-maintenance-regulations-2011/schedule-7/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1484",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-maintenance-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)",
  "text": "(1) The Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2 (principal definitions), in the definition of “maintenance order”—\n(a) after “any order” insert “ , decision, settlement or instrument ”;\n(b) for “such an order” substitute “ one ”;\n(c) after “discharged” insert “ or has otherwise ceased to operate ”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 (which lists maintenance orders to which that Act applies) after paragraph 14 insert—\n“14A (1) A decision, court settlement or authentic instrument which falls to be enforced by a magistrates' court by virtue of the Maintenance Regulation and the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“the Maintenance Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 including as applied in relation to Denmark by virtue of the Agreement made on 19th October 2005 between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark;\n“decision”, “court settlement” and “authentic instrument” have the meanings given by Article 2 of that Regulation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 14 was inserted by Article 5 of and paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to S.I.2001/3929."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1484/schedule/7/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:04:32.213087+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."
}