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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/section-90",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/22",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Short title and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Domestic Proceedings, and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978.\n(2) Except for the following provisions, that is to say—\n(a) sections 54, 55, 60, 61, 74(1) and (3), 87, 88(5), 89(2) (a), (3) and (4) and this section, and\n(b) paragraphs 1, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of Schedule 2\nthis Act does not extend to Scotland.\n(3) Except for the following provisions, that is to say—\n(a) sections 54, 59, 74(5), 88(5), 89(2), (3) and (4) and this section, and\n(b) paragraphs 12, 13, 14 and 33 of Schedule 2 and Schedule 3,\nthis Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, and in section 88(5) of this Act any reference to an enactment includes a reference to an enactment contained in an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(3)(b) substituted (5.4.1993) by Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1992 (c. 56), s. 2(1), Sch. 2 para.1; S.I. 1993/618, art.2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/22/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:00.803749+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."
}