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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/37",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Award of aliment or custody where divorce or separation refused.",
  "text": "A court which refuses a decree of divorce, separation or dissolution of a civil partnership shall not, by virtue of such refusal, be prevented from making an order for aliment ... or an incidental order determining any dispute between the persons as to their respective property rights.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 25(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 repealed (1.11.1996) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(5), Sch. 5 (with s. 103); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch. Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 21 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 25(b); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/37/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:15.003147+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."
}