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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1950/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1950/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14/37",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders Act 1950",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1950",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable certain maintenance orders and other orders relating to married persons and children to be made and enforced throughout the United Kingdom.\n[26th October 1950]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.1.1951 see s. 32(2)"
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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."
}