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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMade 3rd October 2016\nLaid before Parliament 7th October 2016\nComing into force 1st November 2016\nThe President of the Family Division of the High Court (the judicial office holder nominated by the Lord Chief Justice), with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 127 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.54. Section 127 was amended by sections 12(2) and 146 of, and paragraphs 11 and 12 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, and Part 1 of Schedule 18 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), and section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 provided for the Supreme Court Act 1981 to be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981."
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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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