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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-amendment-rules-1979/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1561",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) (Amendment) Rules 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-amendment-rules-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 29th November 1979\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1979\nComing into Operation 1st January 1980\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power 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, section 5(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1968 and sections 27(8) to (10), 32(1) to (3), (6) and (8), 33(4) and (5), 35(4) and 38(2) 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/1979/1561/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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