{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-convention-countries-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (Convention Countries) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-convention-countries-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order declares that Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Uruguay are convention countries for the purposes of Part II of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 and adds those countries to the list of countries and territories (set out in the Schedule to the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (Convention Countries) Order 1975) to which the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance, done at New York on 20th June 1956, extends. In addition, the opportunity has been taken to up-date other references.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1925/note",
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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."
}