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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2011/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2011/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/633",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices’ Clerks (Amendment) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-amendment-rules-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Justices’ Clerks Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/545) (“the 2005 Rules”). Rule 5 inserts a new rule 3A in the 2005 Rules to provide that where a justices’ clerk is performing certain functions and considers it inappropriate to perform those functions, the justices’ clerk must refer the matter to a magistrates’ court.\nRule 8 and the Schedule insert a new Schedule 2 to the 2005 Rules to specify which of the functions which are authorised to be done to, by or before a single justice of the peace may be done to, by or before a justices’ clerk.\nRules 3, 4, 6 and 7 make consequential amendments to the 2005 Rules and transitional provision is made in rule 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/633/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:09.674934+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."
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