{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978-commencement-no-3-order-1979/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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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/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
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  "text": "In relation to an application made before the relevant date for an order under section 16 of the Act of 1978—\n(a) that section shall have effect as if, in subsection (1), for the words “this Act” there were substituted the words “the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960”;\n(b) section 30(1) of the Act (which relates to jurisdiction) shall have effect as if for the words from “commission area” to the end there were substituted the words “petty sessions area for which the court acts or if the cause of the application arose wholly or partly within the said petty sessions area”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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