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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-child-abduction-and-custody-rules-1986/article-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Application for declaration of unlawful removal of a child",
  "text": "An application to a magistrates' court under section 23(2) of the 1985 Act (declaration that the removal of a child from the United Kingdom has been unlawful) may be made orally or in writing in the course of the custody proceedings (as defined in section 27 of that Act).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1141/article/9",
    "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."
}