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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2017/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part 16",
  "text": "In rule 16.6(1)(b) (circumstances in which a child does not need a children’s guardian or litigation friend), after “Part 4A of the Family Law Act 1996”, insert “or Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 31."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/413/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:35.288598+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."
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