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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-36",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Fines officers",
  "text": "Any reference in an enactment to a fines officer is to a person who is—\n(a) appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 2(1) or provided under a contract made by virtue of section 2(4), and\n(b) designated as a fines officer by the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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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}