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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-3-order-1998/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-3-order-1998/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2572",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Law Act 1996 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-3-order-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "Until such time as Schedule 2 to the Act comes into force, section 31(7A) to (7F) of the 1973 Act shall be modified as follows:\n(a) in section 31(7D), for “Subsections (7) and (8) of section 22A” there shall be substituted “Section 23(6)”, and for “section 22A” there shall be substituted “section 23”;\n(b) in section 31(7F), for “section 23A” there shall be substituted “section 24”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 2 to the Family Law Act 1996, which has yet to come into force, makes substantial amendments to Part II of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2014/6",
      "affecting_title": "Children and Families Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2572/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:53.924831+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."
}