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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-of-functions-court-staff-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1013",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-of-functions-court-staff-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COUNTY COURTS\nMade 30th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 30th March 1999\nComing into force 26th April 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 27(3) of the Courts Act 1971, having consulted the senior judges, hereby makes the following Order–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 23; section 27 was amended by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (C.40), Schedule 16, paragraph 2."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1013/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."
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