{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-1996/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2810",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In rule 1(2) of Order 48B:—\n(a) in the definition of “authority”, the word “local” shall be substituted for the word “London”;\nand\n(b) there shall be inserted at the end of the definition of “the Order” the following:—\n“as it applies to a local authority”.\n(2) After paragraph (3) of rule 1 of Order 48B, there shall be inserted the following:—\n“(4) The references in paragraph (2) to a local authority mean:—\n(a) in England, a London authority, a county or district council or the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and\n(b) in Wales, a county or county borough council.”.\nThe undersigned members of the Rule Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 75 of the County Courts Act 1984, having made these Rules, certify them and submit them to the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 28; section 75 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), sections 2(4), 16, Schedule 18, paragraph 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2810/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:41.499409+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."
}