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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1677",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991",
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  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Transfer from one magistrates' court to another",
  "text": "A magistrates' court (the “transferring court”) shall transfer proceedings under the Act or under the Adoption Act 1976 to another magistrates' court (the “receiving court”) where–\n(a) having regard to the principle set out in section 1(2), the transferring court considers that the transfer is in the interests of the child–\n(i) because it is likely significantly to accelerate the determination of the proceedings,\n(ii) because it would be appropriate for those proceedings to be heard together with other family proceedings which are pending in the receiving court, or\n(iii) for some other reason, and\n(b) the receiving court, by its justices' clerk (as defined by rule 1(2) of the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991), consents to the transfer.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1395."
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:56.002723+00:00"
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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."
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