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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-administrative-and-other-court-staff-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3698",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Administrative and Other Court Staff) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-administrative-and-other-court-staff-order-2001",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Contracting out of functions",
  "text": "The Lord Chancellor may enter into contracts with such persons as he sees fit for the provision for the purposes mentioned in section 27(1) of the Courts Act 1971, by those persons or by sub-contractors of theirs, of officers and staff for the Supreme Court and for county courts in England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2791",
      "affecting_title": "The Contracting Out (Administrative and Other Court Staff) (Amendment) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3698/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:22:18.980337+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."
}