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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-rules-1974/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/668",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-rules-1974",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, any documents required by section 5(4) or 9(5) of the Act to be sent to a court in a reciprocating country shall be sent to that court by post.\n(2) Where the court to which the documents are to be sent is in a country specified in Schedule 1 to these Rules, such documents shall be sent to the Secretary of State for transmission to that court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/668/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:41:37.569285+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}