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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/901",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Proceedings\nSenior Courts Of England And Wales\nFamily Court, England And Wales\nMade 8th September 2016\nLaid before Parliament 12th September 2016\nComing into force 3rd October 2016\nThe Family Procedure Rule Committee makes the following rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and sections 75 and 76 of the Courts Act 2003.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c.39. Section 75 was amended by paragraph 338 of Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 18 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) and by paragraph 91 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22). Section 76 was amended by section 62(7) of the Children Act 2004 (c.31), paragraph 172 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33), paragraph 29 of Schedule 1 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and paragraph 92 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/901/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."
}