{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-magistrates-courts-and-family-law-order-1992/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Magistrates' Courts and Family Law) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-magistrates-courts-and-family-law-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transfer of certain functions relating to family law",
  "text": "(1) The functions of the Secretary of State under the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order (which confer miscellaneous functions with respect to family law) are hereby transferred to the Lord Chancellor.\n(2) In the provisions specified in that Schedule for the words “Secretary of State”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted “Lord Chancellor”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2804",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/709/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:09.238348+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."
}