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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1992/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/56",
  "legislation_title": "Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1992",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement.",
  "text": "This Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions or different purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 3 power fully exercised (25.2.1993): 5.4.1993 appointed day for whole Act by S.I. 1993/618."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/56/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:27.106057+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."
}