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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-declarations-of-parentage-rules-northern-ireland-2002/article-12",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/158",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002",
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  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Transfer of proceedings",
  "text": "Where the court receives a request in writing from a party that the proceedings be transferred to a family care centre or High Court in accordance with the Allocation Order it shall issue an order in Form FL6 or certificate in Form FL7, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 12 in operation at 20.5.2002, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/158",
      "affecting_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/158/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:46.426854+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."
}