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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-4-devolution-issues-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/361",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules Amendment No. 4) (Devolution Issues) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-4-devolution-issues-2007",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Adjournal)\nThis Act of Adjournal amends the Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996 as follows:\n(a) the references to Schedule 8 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 are changed to Schedule 9 to the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n(b) the references to the “Government of Wales Act 1998” are changed to the “Government of Wales Act 2006”;\n(c) the reference to the “National Assembly for Wales” is changed to the “Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government”;\n(d) provision is made where a party applies for a stated case or lodges a note of appeal in proceedings where a devolution issue has been previously raised for intimation of the note of appeal to the Advocate General and provision is made for a form of intimation;\n(e) rule 40.4 is amended to specifically include petitions to the nobile officium, bills of suspension and bills of advocation;\n(f) provision is made for the clerk of court to give notice to the relevant authority of a reference of a devolution issue to the High Court not later than 7 days from the date it was made and a form of notice is provided;\n(g) the references to paragraph 30(1) of Schedule 8 of the Government of Wales Act are changed to paragraph 29(1) of Schedule 9 to the Government of Wales Act 2006; and\n(h) the references to section 110 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 are changed to section 153 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/361/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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