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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discipline-of-judges-designation-order-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Discipline of Judges (Designation) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discipline-of-judges-designation-order-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Lord Chancellor\nLord Chief Justice\nJudges\nMade 5th March 2009\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2009\nComing into force 6th April 2009\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 118(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 with the agreement of the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in accordance with sections 118(3), 120(4) and 121(4) respectively of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c.4."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/590/introduction",
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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."
}