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Maintenance Orders Act 1958

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23Short title, extent, commencement and repeals

(1)This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act, 1958.

(2)This Act, except paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section twenty, shall not extend to Scotland or, except section nineteen, the said paragraph (a) and the last foregoing section, to Northern Ireland.

(3)This Act shall come into operation on such date as the Secretary of State may by order, made by statutory instrument, appoint; and different dates may be so appointed for the purposes of different provisions of this Act.

(4)Subsection (2) of section eight of the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1925, and section ten of the Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, are hereby repealed; but nothing in this subsection shall affect any order in force or deemed to be in force under either of those provisions at the commencement of this subsection, and any such order may be discharged or varied as if this subsection had not been passed.

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