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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1968/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/36",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-act-1968",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the enactments relating to matrimonial, guardianship and affiliation proceedings so far as they limit the weekly rate of the maintenance payments which may be ordered by magistrates’ courts.\n[3rd July 1968]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 3.8.1968 see s. 3(3)"
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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."
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