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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991",
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  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Confidentiality of documents",
  "text": "(1) No document, other than a record of an order, held by the court and relating to relevant proceedings shall be disclosed, other than to–\n(a) a party,\n(b) the legal representative of a party,\n(c) the guardian ad litem,\n(d) the Legal Aid Board, or\n(e) a welfare officer,\nwithout leave of the justices' clerk or the court.\n(2) Nothing in this rule shall prevent the notification by the court or the justices' clerk of a direction under section 37(1) to the authority concerned.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/858",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2009"
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      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2005"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/585",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment No 3) Rules 2005"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2001/818",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2001"
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
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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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