{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/34",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any sum required to be paid by a contribution order shall be recoverable as if it had been adjudged to be paid by an order of the collecting court, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.\n(2) Sections 17 (not more than one committal for same arrears) and 18 (power to review committal) of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958 shall apply as if a contribution order were a maintenance order.\n(3) The collecting court may exercise, in relation to a contribution order, the power conferred by section 75 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (power to dispense with immediate payment); and for the purposes of that section any provisions made by the authority which made the order as to time for payment, or payment by instalments, shall be treated as made by the collecting court.\n(4) The following provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 shall apply as if a contribution order were enforceable as an affiliation order—\nsection 80 (application of money found on defaulter to satisfy sum adjudged);\nsection 93 (complaint for arrears);\nsection 94 (effect of committal on arrears); and\nsection 95 (power to remit arrears).\n(5) Any costs awarded under section 64 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 on the hearing of a complaint for the enforcement of a contribution order shall be enforceable as a sum required to be paid by that order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/34/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:54.072822+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."
}