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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/45",
  "legislation_title": "Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Citation, etc.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973.\n(2) Subject to sections 6(4), 12(6) and 14(3) of this Act, the enactments specified in Schedule 6 to this Act (including certain enactments of the Parliament of Northern Ireland) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Part II of this Act extends to England and Wales only; Part III extends to Scotland only; . . . and this part extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.\n(5) This Act shall come into force on 1st January 1974.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(3) repealed by Zimbabwe Act 1979 (c. 60, SIF 26:39), s. 6(3), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1978/1045, Sch. 5"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/45/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:58.722887+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."
}