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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3344",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Authorisation of bodies",
  "text": "(1) Where an application has been submitted to the Lord Chancellor under paragraph 2 of the existing Schedule 4 and at the commencement date the Lord Chancellor has received advice from the Advisory Committee but not from the Director, Part I of the new Schedule 4 shall apply with the following modifications:–\n(a) the advice of the Advisory Committee shall, for the purposes of paragraphs 4 to 6 of the new Schedule 4, be treated as if it were additional advice of the Consultative Panel;\n(b) the Lord Chancellor shall consider whether it would nevertheless be appropriate also to seek the advice of the Consultative Panel; and\n(c) the Lord Chancellor shall (if he has not already done so) seek the advice of the Director.\n(2) Where an application has been submitted to the Lord Chancellor under paragraph 2 of the existing Schedule 4 and at the commencement date the Lord Chancellor has received advice from the Director but not from the Advisory Committee, Part I of the new Schedule 4 shall apply in its entirety, save that the Lord Chancellor shall not be required a second time to seek the advice of the Director.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3344/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:04.084033+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}