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  "title": "The Family Proceedings Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "long_title": "This Order revokes and replaces the Matrimonial Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996. It prescribes the fees to be taken in respect of specified family proceedings in the High Court and county courts. In particular the Orderprescribes the new fees to be taken in respect of certain proceedings under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;re-enacts without increase the fees currently applying to matrimonial proceedings.",
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