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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-warrants-specification-of-orders-order-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/832",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Court Warrants (Specification of Orders) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-warrants-specification-of-orders-order-2014",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 125A(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (‘the 1980 Act’) allows the Lord Chancellor to specify provisions under which warrants of arrest, commitment, detention or distress can be issued by a justice of the peace or specify court orders of any description. The effect of such a specification is that a warrant of arrest, commitment, detention or distress issued by a justice of the peace under a specified provision or for the enforcement of a specified court order may be executed by a civilian enforcement officer.\nThis Order specifies orders of the family court for the purposes of section 125A(3) of the 1980 Act with the effect that civilian enforcement officers may execute warrants of arrest, commitment, detention or distress issued by a justice of the peace (who will for the purposes of the family court be District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts) or justices of the peace who are not District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts)) for the enforcement of an order of the family court.\nA civilian enforcement officer is defined by section 125A(2) of the 1980 Act as a person who is employed by a prescribed class of authority which performs functions in relation to any area specified in the warrant and who is authorised to execute warrants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/832/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:20:59.842125+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."
}