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  "title": "Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "short_title": "Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "long_title": "An Act to remove restrictions on certain orders which may be made by courts of summary jurisdiction; to extend the periods for which payments may be continued under certain orders; to extend the powers of courts to make orders in respect of children in connection with certain proceedings; to make provision for the registration in the High Court or a court of summary jurisdiction of maintenance and affiliation orders and with respect to the enforcement and variation of orders so registered; and otherwise to make further provision with respect to certain orders; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.",
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