{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-amendment-order-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/198",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Amendment) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-amendment-order-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Proceedings\nSenior Courts Of England And Wales\nFamily Court, England And Wales\nMade 22nd February 2017\nLaid before Parliament 23rd February 2017\nComing into force 27th March 2017\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 78(1) of the Courts Act 2003, after consulting in accordance with section 78(2) of that Act and with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with section 78(1A) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.39. Section 78 was amended by section 15(1) of and paragraphs 308 and 340 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/198/introduction",
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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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