SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Declarations of status: consequential amendments

The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)

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Section 65 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (meaning of family proceedings) shall be amended as follows.

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In subsection (1) (proceedings which are family proceedings), after paragraph (m) there shall be inserted—

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section 55A of the M1Family Law Act 1986;

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In subsection (2) (power of court to treat combined proceedings as family proceedings), in paragraph (e), before “section 20” there shall be inserted “proceedings under”.