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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-investigatory-powers-tribunal-rules-2018/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111173343",
  "legislation_title": "The Investigatory Powers Tribunal Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-investigatory-powers-tribunal-rules-2018",
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  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Investigatory Powers Tribunal Rules 2018.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Rules come into force on the twenty-first day after the day on which they are made.\n(3) The following provisions come into force on the later of the twenty first day after the day on which they are made or the day on which section 242 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (right of appeal from the Tribunal) comes into force for all purposes—\n(a) the definition of “appellate court” in rule 3;\n(b) rule 4(c) (application of these Rules to applicants for leave to appeal),\n(c) rule 12(3) and (4), and\n(d) rules 16 to 18 (applications for leave to appeal from the Tribunal).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c. 25."
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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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