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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/855",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2001\nComing into force 2nd April 2001\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13(3), 14(3), and 105 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 14 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999, having had regard to the matters specified in section 25(3) and having consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 22."
    }
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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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