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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-matrimonial-proceedings-etc-rules-1991/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1991",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-matrimonial-proceedings-etc-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and transitional",
  "text": "–\n(1) These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991 and shall come into force on 14th October 1991 except that paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 2 to these Rules shall come into force on 7th October 1991.\n(2) Nothing in these Rules shall affect any proceedings which are pending (within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 14 to the Children Act 1989) immediately before these Rules come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1991/article/1",
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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."
}