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  "legislation": "eur/2012/650",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-650",
  "path": "article/64",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Competence to issue the Certificate",
  "text": "The Certificate shall be issued in the Member State whose courts have jurisdiction under Article 4, Article 7, Article 10 or Article 11. The issuing authority shall be:\n(a) a court as defined in Article 3(2); or\n(b) another authority which, under national law, has competence to deal with matters of succession.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/650/article/64",
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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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