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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-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",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 53A of the 1997 Act shall not apply to proceedings commenced before 1st April 2001 in respect of any act or omission of a justice of the peace or justices' clerk in the execution (or purported execution) of his duty—\n(a) as such a justice, or\n(b) as such a clerk exercising, by virtue of any statutory provision, any of the functions of a single justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 53A is inserted by section 98(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999."
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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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