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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2858",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 3rd November 2008\nLaid before Parliament 6th November 2008\nComing into force 8th December 2008\nThe Lord Chief Justice with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, after having consulted the rule committee appointed under section 144(A1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c.43. Section 144 was amended by section 125(3) of and paragraph 25 of Schedule 18 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41), section 78(2) of and paragraphs 26 and 29 of Schedule 11 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c.22), section 109(1) and (3) of and paragraph 245 of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), section 15(1) of and paragraphs 99 and 102 of Schedule 4 to, and section 59(5) of and paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), and by section 208(1) and paragraphs 42 and 43 of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (c.29)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2858/introduction",
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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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