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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/75/article/2/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003</dc:title><dc:subject>Families</dc:subject><dc:subject>Adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>Public order, justice and rights</dc:subject><dc:subject>Child health services</dc:subject><dc:subject>Courts of law</dc:subject><dc:publisher>Government Printer for Northern Ireland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2016-09-29</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">FAMILY PROCEEDINGS</dc:subject><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">SUPREME COURT</dc:subject><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">COUNTY COURTS</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to introduce rules and forms relating to the adoption of children in consequence of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, as amended by the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.</dc:description>
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<Text>In these Rules “the <Abbreviation Expansion="Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996/322)">Principal Rules</Abbreviation>” means the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/1996/322" id="c00002" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="1996" Number="0322">S.R. 1996 No. 322</Citation>, as amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/1999/88" id="c00003" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="1999" Number="0088">S.R. 1999 No. 88</Citation>, <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2000/329" id="c00004" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2000" Number="0329">S.R. 2000 No. 329</Citation> and <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2002/137" id="c00005" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2002" Number="0137">S.R. 2002 No. 137</Citation></Text>
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