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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-child-support-act-1991-rules-1993/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 11th March 1993\nLaid before Parliament 15th March 1993\nComing into force 5th April 1993\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; as extended by sections 74 and 145 of that Act; by section 28 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55), as amended by section 117 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41); by section 93 of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), as amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 16 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; and by section 10 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, as amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 (c. 17)."
    }
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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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