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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-and-justices-clerks-costs-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1296",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices and Justices' Clerks (Costs) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-and-justices-clerks-costs-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations apply where a court makes an order under section 53A(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) (“the Act”) that the Lord Chancellor make a payment in respect of the costs of a person in the proceedings. The Regulations provide for when such an order cannot be made, and when such an order is made, how the costs shall be determined.\nSection 53A(3) of the Act applies where a court is prevented by section 53A(1) of the Act from ordering a justice of the peace or justices' clerk to pay costs in any proceedings in respect of any act or omission in the execution (or purported execution) of his duty as—\n(a) a single justice; or\n(b) as a justices' clerk exercising, by virtue of any statutory provision, any of the functions of a single justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1296/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."
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