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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/schedule-7/paragraph-159",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/159",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "159",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 16(8) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 for “Part II of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952” substitute “Part 11 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of Sch. 7 paras. 1–3, 5–13, 16–18, 20, 21, 23–27, 30, 35–37, 43–48, 50, 51, 53–56, 61–77, 80–82, 85–90, 93–109, 113–115, 118, 119, 121–125, 130–132, 134–137, 139–155, 159–164, 167, 169–171, 175–183, 186, 187, 190–198, 202–204, 207 and Sch. 9 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}