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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978-commencement-no-3-order-1979/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978-commencement-no-3-order-1979",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE DOMESTIC PROCEEDINGS AND MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT 1978 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST NOVEMBER 1979",
  "text": "1\n2\nProvisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nSection 16.\nPowers of court to make orders for the protection of a party to a marriage or a child of the family.\nSection 17.\nSupplementary provisions with respect to orders under s. 16.\nSection 18.\nPowers of arrest for breach of s. 16 order.\nSection 28.\nPowers of High Court and county court in relation to certain orders under Part I.\nSection 29(1), (2) and (5).\nAppeals.\nSection 30.\nProvisions as to jurisdiction and procedure.\nPart IV.\nAmendments of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55).\nSection 84.\nReasons for decisions in domestic proceedings.\nSection 85.\nPeriodical payments payable by one person under more than one order.\nSection 88 (but not subsection (5) which came into force on 18th July 1978).\nInterpretation.\nSo much of Schedule 2 as is specified in Appendix A hereto.\nMinor and consequential amendments.\nSo much of Schedule 3 as is specified in Appendix B hereto.\nRepeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S I. 1978/997"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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