{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/39",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Prohibition of committal more than once in respect of same arrears.",
  "text": "Where a defendant has been imprisoned or otherwise detained under an order or warrant of commitment issued in respect of his failure to pay a sum due under a maintenance order, then, notwithstanding anything in this Act, no such order or warrant (other than a warrant of which the issue has been postponed under paragraph (ii) of subsection (5) of the next following section) shall thereafter be issued in respect of that sum or any part thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17 extended by Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34, SIF 77:1), ss. 24, 30, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/39/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:55.712187+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."
}