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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-reform-act-1987-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1989/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Family Law Reform Act 1987) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-family-law-reform-act-1987-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "These Rules shall not apply in relation to any application to a magistrates' court, any affiliation order or any order made under a provision of the Guardianship of Minors Acts 1971 and 1973 in relation to which the Family Law Reform Act 1987 does not have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 3 and 1973 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 42; section 33(2) and Schedule 3 provide that applications pending and affiliation orders in force at the time when the provisions of the Family Law Reform Act came into force are not affected by those provisions. Under article 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (Commencement No.2) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/382) similar provision is made in respect of orders in force under the Guardianship of Minors Acts 1971 and 1973."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2804",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/384/article/3",
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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."
}