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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-liable-relatives-regulations-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-liable-relatives-regulations-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1777",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (Liable Relatives) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-liable-relatives-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nWhen income support is claimed by or on behalf of a person who another person is liable to maintain, section 24 of the Social Security Act 1986 enables a magistrates' court, on a complaint by the Secretary of State, to order the liable person to pay such sum as it considers appropriate. The Social Security Act 1990 inserted a new section 24A into the 1986 Act which provides that the sum which may be so ordered to be paid may include an amount, determined in accordance with regulations, in respect of income support paid to or for the claimant under such provisions as may be prescribed. Regulation 2 of these Regulations prescribes the amount and the provisions which are to be taken into account.\nThe 1990 Act also inserted a new section 24B into the 1986 Act which enables the Secretary of State to enforce a maintenance order which already exists in favour of a claimant for income support. Regulation 3 of these Regulations prescribes, under subsection (5) of that section, the person who is to give the Secretary of State notice of any application to vary etc. such an order, and the circumstances in which such notice is to be given.\nThese Regulations are made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the commencement of the provisions under which they are made and accordingly, under section 61(5) of the Social Security Act 1986, proposals to make them were not required to be referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee, and no such reference has been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1777/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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