{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-rules-1975/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) Rules 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-rules-1975",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a magistrates' court dismisses a complaint under section 27 of the Act (application for recovery of maintenance), or a complaint by a person in a convention country for the variation of a registered order, the justices' clerk shall send written notice of the court's decision to the Secretary of State and any such notice shall include a statement of the justices' reasons for their decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/488/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:55.752393+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}