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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/18",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision, applying throughout the United Kingdom, in place of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920; to make provision with a view to the accession by the United Kingdom to the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance done at New York on 20th June 1956; to make other provision for facilitating the recovery of maintenance by or from persons in the United Kingdom from or by persons in other countries; to extend the jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts to hear complaints by or against persons outside England and Wales; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[23rd March 1972]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: certain functions transferred (1.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/709, art. 4(3)(a)(4)"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended (1.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/709, art. 4(5)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "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), Sch. 17 para. 4 (with arts. 28-31)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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