{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/809",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 21st March 1994\nLaid before Parliament 21st March 1994\nComing into force 11th April 1994\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 section 145 of that Act; 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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