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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) When the Secretary of State has received the Consultative Panel’s advice he shall refer the application, together with that advice, to the President of the Family Division.\n(2) It shall be the duty of the President to consider the application, in the light of that advice, and to give to the Secretary of State such advice as he considers appropriate.\n(3) If the President asks the Committee to give him advice with respect to the application, it shall be the duty of the Consultative Panel to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(d) (with arts. 6, 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 2(1) substituted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c.22, s. 35(4)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 2(3) substituted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 35(4)(c) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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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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