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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order consolidates, with minor modifications, all the Rules made under section 5 of the Crown Office Act 1877 (as to the preparation and authentication of documents to which the Act applies) which are in current use. The lists of documents specified in the Rules revoked by this Order have been reduced in number by the removal of those documents which have become obsolete or spent or which are no longer required.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1162/note",
    "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."
}