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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-1988/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-act-1986-rules-1988/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Family Law Act 1986) Rules 1988",
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  "path": "article/6",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duty to give statement of other proceedings",
  "text": "(1) A party to proceedings for or relating to a custody order in a magistrates' court in England and Wales who knows of other proceedings (including proceedings out of the jurisdiction and concluded proceedings) which relate to the child concerned shall provide to the court a statement giving the information set out in Form 2 in the Schedule to these Rules, and, for this purpose, the clerk of a magistrates' court in which proceedings for or relating to a custody order are pending shall, as soon in those proceedings as may be practicable, notify the parties of the provisions of this rule by sending to each party a notice in the said Form 2 or in a similar form.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in relation to proceedings commenced in a magistrates' court before 4th April 1988.",
  "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"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/329/article/6",
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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."
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