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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/711",
  "legislation_title": "The Indictments (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules make consequential amendments to the Indictments (Procedure) Rules 1971 as a result of the changes to procedure at committal proceedings effected by amendments to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 made by the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996. Rules 2, 9 and 11 of the 1971 Rules are amended to replace the references to “depositions” (which now have a more specific meaning as a result of the changes) with the term “committal documents”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/711/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:07.133958+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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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