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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2657",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-1-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions in Access to Justice Act 1999",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 27th September 1999:\n(a) in Part III, sections 36 (barristers and solicitors), 40 (rights to conduct litigation: barristers and legal executives) and 42 (overriding duties of advocates and litigators), paragraphs 6, 7, 9 and 10 of Schedule 6 and, so far as it relates to those paragraphs, section 43 (minor and consequential amendments), section 46 (Bar practising certificates), section 48 and Schedule 7 (Law Society’s powers in relation to conduct of solicitors etc) and section 49 (powers of Legal Services Ombudsman);\n(b) in Part IV, section 66 and Schedule 9 (enforcement of community orders) and, in the areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, section 67(2) (time limits where accused sent for trial);\n(c) in Part V:\n(i) to the extent that it inserts section 30B into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, section 83(1) (Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority);\n(ii) paragraph 11 of Schedule 12 and, so far as it relates to that paragraph, section 83(3); and\n(iii) sections 88 (role of chief executives) and 89 (independence of clerks and staff exercising legal functions) and\n(d) in Part VII:\n(i) section 105;\n(ii) the following provisions of Schedule 15 (repeals and revocations):\n(a) in Part II, the repeal of, or (as the case may be) of words in, the provisions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Order;\n(b) Part IV; and\n(c) in Part V(7), the repeal of sections 31(2) and 40(5) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to, the Justices of the Peace Act 1997; and\n(iii) section 106 so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 15 referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) above, and to those referred to in section 108(3)(f), apart from the provisions specified in section 108(4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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