{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1959/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1959/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/73",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1959",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procedure on applications for affiliation orders.",
  "text": "(1) The proceedings which are domestic proceedings within the meaning of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, shall include proceedings on an application for an affiliation order made under the Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, section forty-four of the National Assistance Act, 1948, or section twenty-six of the Children Act, 1948 (other than proceedings for the enforcement, revocation, revival or variation of an affiliation order), and section fifty-six of the said Act of 1952 (which defines \" domestic proceedings \") shall have effect accordingly.\n(2) In subsection (1) of section sixty of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, the words \" or of proceedings for an affiliation order \" are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/73/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:35.945055+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."
}