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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3107",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1998",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 10th December 1998\nLaid before Parliament 11th December 1998\nComing into force 1st January 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 as extended by section 44(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1997 c. 25."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3107/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."
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