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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-administrative-and-other-court-staff-order-2001/article-3",
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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",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Contracting out of functions",
  "text": "The Lord Chancellor may enter into contracts with such persons as he sees fit for the provision by those persons or by sub-contractors of theirs of officers and staff for carrying out the administrative work of—\n(a) the Commissioners for the special purposes of the Income Tax Acts; and\n(b) in England and Wales, any tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 12 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/56",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3698/article/3",
    "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."
}