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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-rate-act-1967/section-106",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-rate-act-1967/section-106.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/9",
  "legislation_title": "General Rate Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-rate-act-1967",
  "path": "section/106",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "106",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of justices.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of section 104(1) of this Act, justices of the peace may act under the provisions of this Part of this Act as respects a rate if they are justices appointed for an area which comprises the rating area or, in Greater London, a part of the rating area.\n(2) Subject to any enactment in any other Act authorising a stipendiary magistrate or other person to act by himself, a magistrates' court shall not hear a summons for the issue of a warrant of distress under this Part of this Act, or entertain an application for a warrant of commitment under this Part of this Act, or hold an inquiry as to means on such an application, except when composed of at least two justices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/9/section/106",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:03.371503+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."
}