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  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1045",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "(1) References to the trial or first trial in any proceedings do not include references to the separate trial of an issue as to jurisdiction only.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, proceedings in the court are continuing if they are pending and not stayed.",
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