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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-3-1991/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1884",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 3) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-3-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 3) 1991 and shall come into force on 1st October 1991, except for rules 2 to 8 which shall come into force immediately before the commencement of section 40 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.\n(2) In these Rules, an Order referred to by number means the Order so numbered in the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 42; section 40 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraph 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/1776; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1968/1244, 1970/1861, 1971/1269, 1972/1194, 1974/295, 1976/337, 1196, 1978/579, 1979/35, 1542, 1716, 1980/629, 1010, 1981/1734, 1982/1111, 1786, 1983/1181, 1986/632, 1187, 2289, 1987/1423, 1988/298, 1340, 1989/386, 1307, 2427, 1990/1689, 2599, 1991/531 and 1329."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1884/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:39:15.012034+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."
}