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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2267",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Rules 2007",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "maintenance of dependants\nMade 25th July 2007\nLaid before Parliament 1st August 2007\nComing into force 1st October 2007\nThe Lord Chief Justice with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, after having consulted with the rule committee appointed under section 144(A1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980:",
  "extent": null,
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c.43; section 144 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41), section 125(3), Schedule 18, paragraph 25; the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c.22), section 78, Schedule 11, paragraph 29 and Schedule 13, paragraph 116; the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), section 109(1) and (3), Schedule 8, paragraph 245(1) , (2), (3) and (5), Schedule 10 and by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), section 15(1), Schedule 4, PartI, paragraph 99. The section is further amended by the Courts Act 2003, section 109 (1) and (3), Schedule 8, paragraphs 245(1), (2) and (3), Schedule 10 and the Constitutional Reform Act section 59(5), Schedule 11 Part 2, paragraphs 4(1) and (3) from a date to be appointed.."
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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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