{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-order-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-order-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/974",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMade 7th October 2016\nLaid before Parliament 10th October 2016\nComing into force 31st October 2016\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54. Section 99 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), section 15(1) and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 114 and 143(1), (2) and (3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/974/introduction",
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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."
}