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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 25th May 1991\nLaid before Parliament 12th July 1991\nComing into force 14th October 1991\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); and by sections 11(2), 32(2), 41(2), (5), (6)(i) and (10), 38(8)(b), 43(12), 44(9)(b), 48(12), 52(1) and (2), 93, 95(2), 97(1) and 102(4) of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41)."
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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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