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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/schedule-9/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/27",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this paragraph and paragraph 10 “the existing enactments” means—\n(a) the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976;\n(b) sections 16 to 18 of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978; and\n(c) sections 1 and 9 of the 1983 Act.\n(2) Nothing in Part IV, Part III of Schedule 8 or Schedule 10 affects any application for an order or injunction under any of the existing enactments which is pending immediately before the commencement of the repeal of that enactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1976 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1978 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/27/schedule/9/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:31:06.048320+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."
}