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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1958-rules-1959/article-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1959/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act, 1958) Rules 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1958-rules-1959",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Warrants of commitment",
  "text": "(1) A warrant of commitment for the enforcement of a maintenance order, being an affiliation order or an order enforceable as an affiliation order, issued in pursuance of a complaint under section seventy-four of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, as amended by section sixteen of the Act, shall be in the form numbered 18 in the Schedule to these Rules:\nProvided that where the issue of the warrant has been postponed under section sixty-five of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, or under section eighteen of the Act the warrant shall be in the form numbered 19 in the Schedule to these Rules.\n(2) A warrant of commitment for the enforcement of a maintenance order, not being an affiliation order or an order enforceable as an affiliation order, the issue of which has been postponed under section sixty-five of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, or under section eighteen of the Act, shall be in the form numbered 20 in the Schedule to these Rules.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1959/3/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:56:33.003599+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."
}