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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-38",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Service of contribution orders etc.",
  "text": "A contribution order, an order attaching an affiliation order or an arrears order made on a parent or other person liable to make contributions in respect of, or to maintain, a child or young person, may be served by any constable or officer of a local authority by delivering a copy of the order to the person on whom it is made, or by leaving the same at the person’s last known or usual place of abode with some other person for him, or by sending the same by registered post or by recorded delivery service to him at his last known or usual place of abode.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:18.954433+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."
}