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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-1988/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-1988/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Family Law Act 1986) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice of revocation or variation of a registered order, and of cancellation of registration",
  "text": "(1) Where a custody order made by a magistrates' court in England and Wales and registered in the appropriate court in Scotland or Northern Ireland is revoked or varied, the clerk of the court making the order of revocation or variation shall cause a certified copy of that order to be sent to the Deputy Principal Clerk or the Master of the appropriate court, or both, as the case may be, and to the court which made the custody order, if that court is different from the court making the order of revocation or variation.\n(2) Where the clerk of the court which made an order revoking or varying a registered order receives notice of the registration in the appropriate court of the order of revocation or variation he shall cause particulars of the notice to be entered in the register of his court.\n(3) Where the clerk of the court which made a custody order receives, in accordance with paragraph (1) above, a certified copy of an order of revocation or variation of that order by another court, he shall cause notice thereof to be entered in the register of his court.\n(4) Where the clerk of a court which made a custody order receives notice of the registration in the appropriate court of an order revoking or varying the custody order he shall cause particulars of the notice to be entered in the register of his court.\n(5) Where the clerk of a court which made a custody order receives notice of the cancellation of the registration of that order in the appropriate court, he shall cause particulars of the notice to be entered in the register of his court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/329/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
}