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Statutory Instruments
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
Made
31st August 1991
Laid before Parliament
16th September 1991
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:
1980 c. 43, as extended by sections 74 and 145 of that Act; by section 6(9) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22), as substituted by section 10 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42); by section 16(6) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 as amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 18 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41); by section 16(8) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978; by section 28 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55), as amended by section 117 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; by section 35(3)(bb) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979, as inserted by section 10(3)(b) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; by sections 10 and 24 of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c. 60); by sections 27, 39 and 42(1) of the Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55); by section 93 of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), as amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 16 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; and by section 10 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 as amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 (c. 17).
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