{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-amendment-rules-1980/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1584",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) (Amendment) Rules 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-amendment-rules-1980",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 17th October 1980\nLaid before Parliament 28th October 1980\nComing into Operation 1st February 1981\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 15, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "as extended by section 122 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55) and section 33(4) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1584/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."
}