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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-access-to-justice-act-1999-destination-of-appeals-order-2016/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-access-to-justice-act-1999-destination-of-appeals-order-2016/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111146620",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-access-to-justice-act-1999-destination-of-appeals-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1981 Act” means the Senior Courts Act 1981;\n“the 1984 Act” means the County Courts Act 1984;\n“the Companies Acts” means the Companies Act 1985, the Companies Act 1989 and the Companies Act 2006;\n“decision” includes any judgment, order or direction of the High Court or the county court;\n“enterprise judge” has the meaning assigned to it by rule 63.1(2)(h) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998;\n“family proceedings” has the meaning assigned to it by section 32 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; and\n“a judge of the county court” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5 of the 1984 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54. By virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 1 and Part 4, paragraph 26, the Supreme Court Act 1981 was renamed “the Senior Courts Act 1981”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1989 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2006 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. Rule 63.1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/3219, rule 12 and the Schedule, and was subsequently amended by S.I. 2009/3390, rules 1(2), 2, 10(b) and 38(a) and (b), S.I. 2212/2208, rule 1, and S.I. 2013/1974, rule 26(b)(ii)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1984 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 5 was amended by section 17 of, and paragraph 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 9 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111146620/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:16.918517+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."
}