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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2796",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of these Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Justices' Clerks Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/545 (L.10)) primarily to make provision enabling a justices' clerk or an assistant clerk to carry out functions in proceedings under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38). In addition, rule 5 is an amendment made as a consequence of the implementation of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) and rule 7 inserts paragraph 44 into the Schedule to the Rules, which had been omitted when the Justices' Clerks Rules 1999 were replaced by the 2005 Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2796/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:59.405157+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."
}