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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-property-and-maintenance-act-1958/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/35",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable the power of the court in matrimonial proceedings to order alimony, maintenance or the securing of a sum of money to be exercised at any time after a decree; to provide for the setting aside of dispositions of property made for the purpose of reducing the assets available for satisfying such an order; to enable the court after the death of a party to a marriage which has been dissolved or annulled to make provision out of his estate in favour of the other party; and to extend the powers of the court under section seventeen of the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882.\n[7th July 1958]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 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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