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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-amendment-rules-1980/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "1 These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) Rules 1975 consequent upon the coming into force on 1st February 1981 (S.I. 1980/1478) of section 57 of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978. Rule 7(2) which requires a justices' clerk to take enforcement proceedings in his own name when arrears of payments amount to four times the weekly payment is amended so as to require him to do so when the arrears amount to four times the periodical payment or, if due at intervals of a month or more, twice the periodical payment (rule 2).\n2 In conformity with the transitional provisions contained in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1978 the amendment does not apply in relation to orders made before section 57 comes into force (rule 2, proviso).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1584/note",
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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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