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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Proceedings to be commenced in magistrates' court",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and to article 4, proceedings under any of the following provisions shall be commenced in a magistrates' court:\n(a) section 25 (use of accommodation for restricting liberty);\n(b) section 31 (care and supervision orders);\n(c) section 33(7) (leave to change name of or remove from United Kingdom child in care);\n(d) section 34 (parental contact);\n(e) section 36 (education supervision orders);\n(f) section 43 (child assessment orders);\n(g) section 44 (emergency protection orders);\n(h) section 45 (duration of emergency protection orders etc.);\n(i) section 46(7) (application for emergency protection order by police officer);\n(j) section 48 (powers to assist discovery of children etc.);\n(k) section 50 (recovery orders);\n(l) section 75 (protection of children in an emergency);\n(m) section 77(6) (appeal against steps taken under section 77(1));\n(n) section 102 (powers of constable to assist etc.);\n(o) paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 (approval of arrangements to assist child to live abroad);\n(p) paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 (contribution orders);\n(q) paragraph 8 of Schedule 8 (certain appeals);\n(r) section 21 of the Adoption Act 1976.\n(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (l) and subject to paragraph (3), proceedings of a kind set out in sub-paragraph (b), (e), (f), (g), (i) or (j) of paragraph (1), and which arise out of an investigation directed, by the High Court or a county court, under section 37(1), shall be commenced—\n(a) in the court which directs the investigation, where that court is the High Court or a care centre, or\n(b) in such care centre as the court which directs the investigation may order.\n(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (l) and (2), proceedings of a kind set out in subparagraph (a) to (k), (n) or (o) of paragraph (l) shall be made to a court in which are pending other proceedings, in respect of the same child, which are also of a kind set out in those sub-paragraphs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36; a new section 21 was substituted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/775",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2797",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/624",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/624",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2164",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1677/article/3",
    "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."
}