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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-3-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1387",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules Amendment No. 3) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-3-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Adjournal)\nThis Act of Adjournal amends the Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 as follows:\n(a) paragraph 2(2) inserts a new rule 1.4 under which the Lord Justice General may give a direction as respects the arrangements for, or in connection with, the appearance in court of the Advocate General for Scotland;\n(b) paragraph 2(3) inserts a new rule 3.5A which provides that any register kept by the High Court may be either in documentary or electronic form; and\n(c) paragraphs 2(4) and (5) revoke rule 20.1 (form of sentence of death) and the form associated with that rule (form 20.1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1387/note",
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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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