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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/710",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 10th March 1997\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by section 145 of that Act and by section 28(1) and (1A) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55). Section 145 was amended by section 65(3) of and Schedule 5 to the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25). Section 28(1) of the 1979 Act was amended by the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, Schedule 7, paragraph 194. Subsection (1A) of that section was inserted by section 117 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) and amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), Schedule 8, paragraph 12."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/710/introduction",
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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."
}