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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978-commencement-no-4-order-1980/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978-commencement-no-4-order-1980",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE DOMESTIC PROCEEDINGS AND MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT 1978 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST FEBRUARY 1981",
  "text": "1\n2\nProvisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nPart I (but not sections 16, 17, 18, 28, 29(1), (2) and (5) and 30 which came into force on 1st November 1979).\nMatrimonial proceedings in magistrates' courts.\nPart II (but not section 40 which came into force on 17th September 1979).\nAmendments of Guardianship of Minors Acts 1971 and 1973 (c. 3 and c. 29).\nSections 49 to 53.\nAmendments of Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957 (c.55).\nSections 54 to 61.\nAmendments of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18).\nSections 62 and 63.\nAmendments of Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18).\nSection 72.\nAlteration in age limits for certain orders made on refusal of adoption order.\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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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