{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-justices-clerks-and-assistants-rules-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111108888",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-justices-clerks-and-assistants-rules-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules authorise justices’ clerks and assistants to justices’ clerks to carry out certain functions of the new single family court. These Rules require justices’ clerks and assistants to justices’ clerks to refer matters back to the court where it would be inappropriate to carry out an authorised function.\nThese Rules are made as part of the establishment of the single family court. Provision for the family court is made in section 17 of, and Schedules 10 and 11 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22).\nAn impact assessment for these Rules in annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum, which is available alongside these Rules at www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111108888/note",
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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."
}