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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 10th March 2009\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2009\nComing into force 6th April 2009\nThe Lord Chief Justice with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 after consultation with the rule committee appointed under section 144(A1) of that Act:",
  "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), and section 15(1) of and paragraphs 99 and 102 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/637/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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