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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-matrimonial-proceedings-etc-rules-1991/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Answer to application",
  "text": "Within 14 days of service of an application for an order under section 2, 6, 7 or 20 of the Act, the respondent shall file and serve on the parties an answer to the application in the appropriate form in Schedule 1 to these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2930",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2005"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1991/article/5",
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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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