http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/36/section/3Maintenance Orders Act 1968An Act to amend the enactments relating to matrimonial, guardianship and affiliation proceedings so far as they limit the weekly rate of the maintenance payments which may be ordered by magistrates’ courts.1974-12-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-261993-11-05 31This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act 1968.2This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.3This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. 3(4) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993, c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt.VIII