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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reciprocal-enforcement-of-maintenance-orders-rules-1974/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 4th April 1974\nLaid before Parliament 17th April 1974\nComing into Operation 8th May 1974\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, as extended by section 122 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 and sections 2(3) and (4), 3(5)(b) and (c), 5(4) and (9)(a), 6(2) and (3), 7(2) and (5), 8(5) and (6), 9(5) and (10), 10(1) to (5) and (7), 11(1)(b), 14(1), 16(1), 18(1) and 23(3) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 15, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/668/introduction",
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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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