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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-facilities-for-enforcement-act-1920/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/10-11/33",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-facilities-for-enforcement-act-1920",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to facilitate the enforcement in England and Ireland of Maintenance Orders made in other parts of His Majesty’s Dominions and Protectorates and vice versa.\n[16th August 1920]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18), ss. 22(2), 49(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by South Africa Act 1962 (c. 23), s. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Functions of the Secretary of State under this Act are transferred (01.04.1992) to the Lord Chancellor by S.I. 1992/709, art. 4(1)(a) and by art. 4(2) of that S.I. it is provided that any reference to the Secretary of State shall be construed as a reference to the Lord Chancellor."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act continued (28.5.2002) by S.I. 2002/788, art.4(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 17 para. 1 (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/33/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:57:53.891708+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."
}