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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Office (Preparation and Authentication of Documents Rules) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Paper or parchment",
  "text": "Except where the Lord Chancellor, thinking it more convenient that a particular document should be prepared on the material employed for such documents at any earlier time, has so directed, all the documents specified in Part I of Schedule 1 shall be prepared on parchment, those specified in Part II may be prepared on paper or parchment, and those specified in Part III shall be prepared on paper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1162/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:04:09.669617+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}