SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10The family court

Part 2The family court: further amendments

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)

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In section 144 (procedure rules for civil proceedings in magistrates' courts and before justices' clerks) after subsection (1) insert—

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Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to functions of justices' clerks given under section 31O(1)(a), or specified in section 31O(2), of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (functions in the family court).