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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
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  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 29th March 1999.\n(2) In these Rules, a rule referred to by number means the rule so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 and a reference to Appendix 1 is a reference to Appendix 1 to those Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 322"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/88/article/1",
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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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