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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/916",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of Access to Justice Act 1999",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1st April 2001:\n(a) in Part V:\n(i) to the extent that they are not already in force, section 83 and Schedule 12 (Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority);\n(ii) section 90 and Schedule 13 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives); and\n(iii) section 91 (accounting etc. functions of chief executives); and\n(b) in Part VI:\n(i) sections 98 (justices and clerks: immunity from costs), 99 (justices and clerks: indemnity), and 100 (assistant justices' clerks: immunity from action); and\n(ii) so far as they extend to England and Wales and Northern Ireland only, sections 101 (General Commissioners: immunity from action), 102 (General Commissioners; immunity from costs and expenses), and 103 (General Commissioners and clerks: indemnity); and\n(c) in Part VII:\n(i) so far as they have not already been effected, the repeals in Part V(6) of Schedule 15;\n(ii) the repeals in Part V(7) of Schedule 15;\n(iii) the repeal in Part VI of Schedule 15; and\n(iv) so far as it relates to those repeals, section 106.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
}