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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-rules-1974/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/668",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974",
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  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of compliance with section 5(9) of the Act (revocation by United Kingdom court of provisional order) there shall be served on the person on whose application the maintenance order was made a notice which shall—\n(a) set out the evidence received or taken, as the case may be, in pursuance of that subsection;\n(b) inform that person that it appears to the court that the maintenance order ought not to have been made; and\n(c) inform that person that if he wishes to make representations with respect to the evidence set out in the notice he may do so orally or in writing and that if he wishes to adduce further evidence he should notify the clerk of the magistrates' court which made the maintenance order.\n(2) Where a justices' clerk receives notification that the person on whose application the maintenance order was made wishes to adduce further evidence, he shall fix a date for the hearing of such evidence and shall send that person written notice of the date fixed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "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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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/668/article/7",
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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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