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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2806",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Proceedings\nSenior Courts Of England And Wales\nCounty Courts, England And Wales\nMagistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 6th November 2012\nLaid before Parliament 9th November 2012\nComing into force 20th December 2012\nThe Family Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 75 and 76 of the Courts Act 2003 and sections 12 and 48 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, after consulting in accordance with section 79 of the Courts Act 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.39. Sections 75 and 79 were amended by section 15(1) and section 146 of, and paragraphs 308 and 338 of Part 1 of Schedule 4, and Part 2 of Schedule 18 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1982 c.27. Section 12 was amended by section 3 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c.12). Section 48 was amended by section 3 of, and paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991, regulations 1, 3 and 5 of S.I. 2011/1215, and regulations 3 and 5 of S.I. 2012/1770."
    }
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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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