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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-maximum-number-of-judges-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110428501",
  "legislation_title": "The Maximum Number of Judges Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-maximum-number-of-judges-order-2002",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 2(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, prescribing the maximum number of ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal, shall be amended so as further to increase the maximum number of those judges to thirty-seven.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 2(1) was amended by S.I. 1983/1705, 1987/2059, 1993/605, 1994/3217 and 1996/1142."
    }
  ],
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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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