{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-order-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/618",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999 (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Magistrates' Courts Act 1980",
  "text": "In section 77 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (postponement of issue of warrant), for subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) Where such an application is referred to the court—\n(a) the clerk of the court shall fix a time and place for the application to be heard; and\n(b) the justices' chief executive for the court shall give the applicant notice of that time and place.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 77(6) is added by section 61(1) and (2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/618/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:00:38.592785+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."
}