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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-child-abduction-and-custody-rules-1986/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1141",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Child Abduction and Custody) Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-child-abduction-and-custody-rules-1986",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Resumption of proceedings after stay",
  "text": "Where a magistrates' court which has stayed any proceedings under Rule 3 above receives notice from the High Court or Court of Session that an order for the return of the child concerned has been refused (other than in the circumstances set out in the third paragraph of Article 12 of the Hague Convention), the court shall order that the stay be lifted, shall so notify the parties to the proceedings, and shall proceed to deal with the complaint accordingly.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1141/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:45:33.013771+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."
}