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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-husband-and-wife-act-1962/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/48",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Husband and Wife) Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-husband-and-wife-act-1962",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title, repeal, interpretation, saving and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Law Reform (Husband and Wife) Act 1962.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The references in subsection (1) of section one and subsection (1) of section two of this Act to the parties to a marriage include references to the persons who were parties to a marriage which has been dissolved.\n(4) This Act does not apply to any cause of action which arose, or would but for the subsistence of a marriage have arisen, before the commencement of this Act.\n(5) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (4.5.2006) by Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2), s. 46(2), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3(2), repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c.22),Sch. Pt. XI"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/48/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:02:09.320916+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."
}