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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-chief-executives-and-justices-clerks-appointment-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2397",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Chief Executives and Justices' Clerks (Appointment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-chief-executives-and-justices-clerks-appointment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 31st August 1999\nLaid before Parliament 1st September 1999\nComing into force 27th September 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 40 and 42 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25. Subsection (5) of section 40 is omitted by section 87 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which comes into force on 27th September 1999."
    }
  ],
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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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