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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1958-rules-1959/article-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1959/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act, 1958) Rules 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1958-rules-1959",
  "path": "article/21",
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  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Administering court to be informed of proceedings in foreign court",
  "text": "Where any decision is reached, or warrant of distress or commitment is issued, in pursuance of a complaint or application relating to a maintenance order or the enforcement of a maintenance order (including an application under section twelve of the Act, which relates to the determination whether payments are earnings), being a complaint or application heard by a magistrates' court other than the administering court—\n(a) the clerk of the first-mentioned court shall forthwith send by post to the clerk of the administering court an extract from the register containing a minute or memorandum of the decision or of the issue of the warrant as the case may be;\n(b) on receipt of the extract the last-mentioned clerk shall enter the minute or memorandum in his register.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "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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      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
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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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