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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-magistrates-courts-and-family-law-order-1992/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Magistrates' Courts and Family Law) Order 1992",
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  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "FUNCTIONS RELATING TO FAMILY LAW TRANSFERRED BY ARTICLE 3",
  "text": "Title and chapter or number\nProvision conferring function\nThe Family Law Reform Act 1969 (c. 46).\nSection 22(1) (power to make regulations as to the manner of giving effect to directions as to scientific tests and the taking of samples for the purposes of establishing paternity).\nBlood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971 (S.I. 1971/1861).\nRegulation 2(1) (so far as it confers the function of appointing testers).\nThe Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22).\nSection 2(3) (power to determine, by order, the maximum amount of a lump sum required to be paid under an order of a magistrates' court made in matrimonial proceedings).\nThe Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43).\nIn section 59 (orders for periodical payments: means of payment), subsection (8) (power by regulations to confer on magistrates' courts the power to order that periodical payments be made by a method of payment other than those specified in subsection (3) of the section), subsection (10) (power to apply other enactments to such methods of payment) and subsection (11) (power to be exercised by statutory instrument).\nIn section 94A (interest on arrears), subsection (1) (power by order to provide that a magistrates' court may order that interest shall be paid on arrears under certain maintenance orders), subsection (2) (power to prescribe rate of interest) and subsection (6) (power exercisable by statutory instrument).\nThe Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984 (S.I. 1984/611).\nRule 32(5)(b) (iii) (authorisation of person to obtain information relating to adoption proceedings for the purposes of research).\nThe Children Act 1989 (c. 41).\nSection 97(4) (power by order to dispense with ban on publication of material intended or likely to identify children involved in proceedings before magistrates' courts etc.).\nIn Schedule 1 (financial provision for children), paragraph 5(2) (power by order to fix maximum amount of lump sum payment).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2013/22",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Courts Act 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2804",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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