{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/39",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1958",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Short title, extent, commencement and repeals.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act, 1958.\n(2) The following provisions of this Act, namely—\nsection 2 section 2A;\nsection 5(2), (3), (4) and (4A);\nextend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n(2A) section 20(3)(a) above extends to Northern Ireland.\n(2B) Subject to subsections (2) and (2A) above, this Act extends only to England.\n(3) This Act shall come into operation on such date as the Secretary of State may by order, made by statutory instrument, appoint; and different dates may be so appointed for the purposes of different provisions of this Act.\n(4) Subsection (2) of section eight of the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1925, and section ten of the Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, are hereby repealed; but nothing in this subsection shall affect any order in force or deemed to be in force under either of those provisions at the commencement of this subsection, and any such order may be discharged or varied as if this subsection had not been passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23(2)(2A)(2B) substituted for s. 23(2) by Administration of Justice Act 1977 (c. 38, SIF 37), s. 3, Sch. 3 para. 5, with effect in relation to the enforcement in one part of the United Kingdom of maintenance orders made in another part."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27, SIF 45:3), ss. 36(6), 52, Sch. 12 Pt. III para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1957 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 23(3) power fully exercised (11.12.1958): 16.2.1959 for whole Act by S.I. 1958/2111"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/39/section/23",
    "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."
}