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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/28",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to county courts.\n[26th June 1984]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to modify or exclude conferred by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), s. 40(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act (except ss. 9, 10, 13(1)(2), 60(1), 61, 75(7), 147) amended (1.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2684, arts. 2(1), 4, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references to youth courts in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act shall be construed as references to juvenile courts"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force on 1. 8. 1984, see s. 150."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "A Table showing the derivation of the provisions of this consolidation Act will be found at the end of the Act. The Table has no official status."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/28/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:30.128313+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."
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