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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1174",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "legal services commission, england and wales\nMade 3rd April 2007\nLaid before Parliament 5th April 2007\nComing into force 30th April 2007\nThis Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Lord Chancellor by sections 14(3), 14(5) and 105 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 14 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999.\nThe Lord Chancellor has had regard to the matters specified in section 25(3) of that Act and has consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society in accordance with section 25(2) of that Act.\nAccordingly, the Lord Chancellor makes the following Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The powers were conferred on the Lord Chancellor, transferred to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs by the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), and were transferred back to the Lord Chancellor by the Transfer of Functions (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3429)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1999 c..2.2"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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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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