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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-1993-orders-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-1993-orders-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Law (1993 Orders) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-1993-orders-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order brings into operation on 4th November 1996 the maintenance enforcement provisions contained in Articles 6 to 11 of and Schedule 1 to the Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (“the Family Law Order”) and in the Family Law (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1993.\nParagraphs 10 to 12 and 15 of and Schedule 1 to the Family Law Order are not brought into operation by the Order: these provisions have been repealed and replaced by other provisions in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)), which provisions also come into operation on 4th November 1996.\nArticles 1 to 4, 12 to 14 and 16 of, and Schedules 2 to 4 to, the Family Law Order came into operation in accordance with Article 1(2) of the Family Law Order on 24th August 1993. Articles 5 and 15 have not been brought into operation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/454/note",
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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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