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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/668",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974",
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  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972; and\n“his register”, in relation to a justices' clerk, means the register kept by that clerk in pursuance of rule 54 of the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1968 .\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
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      "text": "(1968 III, p. 5175)."
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