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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-amendment-rules-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3297",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) (Amendment) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-amendment-rules-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Proceedings\nSenior Courts Of England And Wales\nFamily Court, England And Wales\nMade 15th December 2014\nLaid before Parliament 18th December 2014\nComing into force 11th January 2015\nThe President of the Family Division, as nominee of the Lord Chief Justice under paragraph 2(2)(b) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, makes the following rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31D(1) and (3) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.\nThese Rules are made after consultation with the Family Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 31D(5)(b) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.\nThese Rules are made with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor in accordance with paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c.4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c.42. Section 31D was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3297/introduction",
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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."
}