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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1677",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Classes of county court",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Order there shall be the following classes of county court:\n(a) divorce county courts, being those courts designated for the time being as divorce county courts by an order under section 33 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984;\n(b) family hearing centres, being those courts set out in Schedule 1 to this Order;\n(c) care centres, being those courts set out in column (ii) of Schedule 2 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2797",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2797",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1677/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:56.002723+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."
}