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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-7.26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-7.26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991",
  "path": "rule/7.26",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.26",
  "heading": "Registration in the High Court of an order registered in a magistrates' court",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a sheriff court in Scotland or a magistrates' court in Northern Ireland has made an order for the registration in the High Court of an order previously registered in a magistrates' court in England and Wales in accordance with section 17(4) of the Act of 1950, and has sent a certified copy of the maintenance order to the proper officer of the High Court, pursuant to section 2(4)(c) of the Act of 1958.\n(2) On receipt of the certified copy, the proper officer shall cause the order to be registered in the High Court by filing the copy and making an entry in the register, and shall send notice of the registration to the clerk of the original court and also to the clerk of the magistrates' court in which the order was registered in accordance with section 17(4) of the Act of 1950.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1056",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1247/rule/7.26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:52.905656+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}