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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-19/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of section 16(3)(c) of the Courts Act 1971 (certain office-holders eligible, after 3 years, for appointment as Circuit judges) a person who holds an office (the “former office\") which, on the coming into force of section 74, becomes the office of district judge shall be deemed to have held that office since his appointment to the former office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "1971 c. 23."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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