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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/778",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Family Law Act 1986) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FAMILY PROCEEDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 6th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 2001\nComing into force 1st April 2001\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; relevant extensions were made by section 145 of that Act; by section 28 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979, 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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