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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "The commission of the peace for England and Wales",
  "text": "There shall be a commission of the peace for England and Wales—\n(a) issued under the Great Seal, and\n(b) addressed generally, and not by name, to all such persons as may from time to time hold office as justices of the peace for England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/7",
    "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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