{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-of-functions-court-staff-order-1996/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2182",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-of-functions-court-staff-order-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 13th September 1996.\n(2) In this Order —\n“the 1971 Act”means the Courts Act 1971;\n“the Act”means the County Courts Act 1984;\n“the Rules”means the County Court Rules 1981; the abbreviation “CCR”denotes the Rules and any reference to an Order and rule prefixed by “CCR”is a reference to that Order and rule in the Rules;\n“the Summons Production Centre”means the Centre established under CCR Order 2, rule 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1687."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2182/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:29.357243+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."
}