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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3107",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualification of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to provide that, on or after 1st January 1999, a justices' clerks' assistant may only be appointed as a court clerk if he or she\n(a) is a barrister or solicitor, or\n(b) has passed all the necessary examinations to become a barrister or solicitor.\nA court clerk employed on 31st December 1998 who has not attained the age of 40 may only continue to assist a justices' clerk by acting in his place as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008 if he holds one of these qualifications. These Rules also abolish the system of training certificates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3107/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:14.981994+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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