{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-child-support-act-1991-rules-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/627",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Child Support Act 1991) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-child-support-act-1991-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and transitional provision",
  "text": "In these rules—\n“the Act of 1991” means the Child Support Act 1991,\n“court” means a family proceedings court constituted in accordance with section 66 and 67 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 or a single justice who is a member of a family panel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 66 and 67 were amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/627/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:02.328932+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."
}