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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-violence-protection-order-proceedings-rules-2011/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-violence-protection-order-proceedings-rules-2011/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Domestic Violence Protection Order Proceedings) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-violence-protection-order-proceedings-rules-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application and Interpretation",
  "text": "In these rules—\n“the 1995 Act” means the Civil Evidence Act 1995;\n“the 1999 Rules” means the Magistrates’ Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999;\n“the 2010 Act” means the Crime and Security Act 2010;\n“DVPO” means a Domestic Violence Protection Order made in accordance with section 28 (conditions for and contents of a domestic violence protection order) of the 2010 Act; and\n“DVPO proceedings” means proceedings under any of sections 26 (breach of domestic violence protection notice) 27 (application for a domestic violence protection order) and 29 (breach of domestic violence protection order) of the 2010 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/681; to which there have been amendments which are not relevant to these Rules."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2010 c.17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1434/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:07.591762+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."
}