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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-commencement-no-1-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3345",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-commencement-no-1-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of the Courts Act 2003",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Courts Act 2003 come into force on 26 January 2004—\n(a) in Part 6—\n(i) section 62 (Head and Deputy Head of Civil Justice);\n(ii) section 63 (Ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal);\n(iii) section 64 (Power to alter judicial titles);\n(iv) section 66 (Judges having powers of District Judges (Magistrates' Courts)), other than paragraph (b) of subsection (1), and subsection (4); and\n(v) section 67 (Removal of restriction on Circuit judges sitting on certain appeals);\n(b) in Part 7—\n(i) section 68 (Meaning of “criminal court”);\n(ii) section 70 (Criminal Procedure Rule Committee);\n(iii) section 71 (Power to change certain requirements relating to Committee);\n(iv) section 74 (Practice directions as to practice and procedure of the criminal courts);\n(v) section 77 (Family Procedure Rule Committee);\n(vi) section 78 (Power to change certain requirements relating to Committee);\n(vii) section 81 (Practice directions relating to family proceedings);\n(viii) section 83 (Civil Procedure Rule Committee); and\n(ix) section 84 (Power to change certain requirements relating to Committee); and\n(c) in Part 8—\n(i) section 98 (Register of judgments and orders etc.), other than paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of subsection (1), and paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3);\n(ii) section 102 (Power to alter judicial titles: Northern Ireland);\n(iii) in Schedule 10, the repeals of section 56A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 and section 52(8) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994; and\n(iv) section 109(3) to the extent necessary for those repeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54. Section 56A was inserted by section 52(8) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    }
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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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