{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-and-assistants-amendment-rules-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/890",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-and-assistants-amendment-rules-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Court, England And Wales\nMade 23rd March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 26th March 2015\nComing into force 1st July 2015\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Rules in exercise of the power conferred by sections 31O(1) and 31P(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, with the agreement of the President of the Family Division, as the judicial office holder nominated by the Lord Chief Justice under section 31O(8) of that Act.\nBefore making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Family Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 31O(1) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c.42. Sections 31O and 31P were inserted by section 17(6) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/890/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:18.020682+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."
}