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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-violence-protection-order-proceedings-rules-2011/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nProcedure\nMade 6th June 2011\nLaid before Parliament 9th June 2011\nComing into force 30th June 2011\nThe Lord Chief Justice makes the following Rules under sections 144(1) and 145(1)(a) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 and section 2(2)(a) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995.\nIn accordance with section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 he has consulted with the rule committee appointed under that section and makes these Rules with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43. Section 144(1) was amended by section 15 of, and paragraphs 99 and 102 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and section 109 of, and paragraph 245 of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c.38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1434/introduction",
    "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."
}