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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations:\n(a) a reference to a section by number alone means the section so numbered in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973;\n(b) “the 1984 Act\" means the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984;\n(c) expressions defined in sections 21A and 25D(3) have the meanings assigned by those sections;\n(d) every reference to a rule by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991Family Procedure Rules 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(d) substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2011) by The Family Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1045), arts. 1, 27 (with art. 39)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 21A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1123/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:56.500177+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."
}