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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-48",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/42",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Short title and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.\n(2) Parts I to III and V and Schedules 2 and 3 extend to England and Wales only, Part IV extends to Scotland only . . .\n(3) Where any enactment amended by Schedule 1 extends to any part of the United Kingdom, the amendment extends to that part.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) repealed (4.11.1996) by S.I. 1995/755, art. 185(2), Sch. 10 (with Sch. 8 para. 23(4)); S.R. 1996/297, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/42/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:50.317478+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."
}