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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-amendment-rules-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1148",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-amendment-rules-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974. Rules 3 and 4 add to Schedule 1 (reciprocating countries to which documents are transmitted via the Secretary of State) and Schedule 2 (countries and territories in which sums are payable through Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations) certain of the countries and territories which are designated as reciprocating countries for the purposes of Part I of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 by the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1125) which comes into operation on the same date as these Rules.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1148/note",
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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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